Apart from being a terrible bug, the lesson here should be never run npm with sudo.

4 thoughts on “Apart from being a terrible bug, the lesson here should be never run npm with sudo.”

1. I mean, duh, but I’m always startled by the number of tutorials that use `sudo npm -g`

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2. Larry Lade yes it’s a very widespread practice.

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3. groupadd npm

   useradd npmadmin -g npm

   sudo -u npmadmin -g npm

   npm …

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4. Is there a bug ticket we should be voting up?

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