Shazron wrote: >The premise here is npm running sudo is dangerous. Here's what it does >with >that power: >https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/294 > >Note that the issue was filed and closed _after_ this article was written, >so the article is actually stale: >http://howtonode.org/introduction-to-npm > >In my opinion, sudo is fine based on @izs' npm issue explanation above.
*shrug*, on Friday we ran into a thing where various portions of Cordova related node_modules were owned by Administrator/nobody (OS X, not Linux) and we have totally failed miserably at trying to get it cleaned up. Cleaning up after a botched install done by a user is fairly easy: rm -rf. Cleaning up after a botched install w/ a mix of other users is much more complicated, (1) you have to become root, (2) you have to be *much* more careful about running `rm -rf`.
