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Root permission NPM global installation (- G) will still have insufficient permissions. Please know the parameter unsafe perm

Environmental description

ganiks@ganiks-ubuntu-trusty-64:/ganiks/parse-server$ npm -v
6.5.0
ganiks@ganiks-ubuntu-trusty-64:/ganiks/parse-server$ node -v
v10.15.0

Problem description

Install and deploy parseserver service

root@ganiks-ubuntu-trusty-64:/ganiks/parse-server# npm install -g parse-server mongodb-runner

The first exception was encountered

> [email protected] install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/lib'
gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/10.15.0"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install

Complete error information:

> [email protected] install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/lib'
gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/10.15.0"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/.node-gyp'
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-164-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/bcrypt_lib.node" "--module_name=bcrypt_lib" "--module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding" "--napi_version=3" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--napi_build_version=0" "--node_napi_label=node-v64"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt
gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/bcrypt_lib.node --module_name=bcrypt_lib --module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding --napi_version=3 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v64' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:962:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:251:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-164-generic
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.12.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/bcrypt_lib.node --module_name=bcrypt_lib --module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding --napi_version=3 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v64' (1)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2019-01-17T08_54_06_070Z-debug.log
　　

How to Solve

npm install Adding parameters–unsafe-perm

root@ganiks-ubuntu-trusty-64:/ganiks/parse-server# sudo npm install -g parse-server mongodb-runner --unsafe-perm

References

https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/454

https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge/issues/405#issuecomment-164803485

If npm detects it is running as root it drops to a non-privileged user which then doesn’t have permissions to write to/root/.node-gyp.

The–unsafe-permoption stops it from changing user.

nvm doesn’t have this problem when not using sudo because it stores everything under the current users’ home directory.

https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/config#unsafe-perm–unsafe-perm

See the official documentation for an explanation

unsafe-perm
Default: false if running as root, true otherwise
Type: Boolean
Set to true to suppress the UID/GID switching when running package scripts.

If set explicitly to false, then installing as a non-root user will fail.

Add:

There is no need to install parse-server globally (-g), install it to the local directory and you will not encounter the problems in this article.

vagrant@ganiks-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/parse-server-advanced$ npm install parse-server
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: stop using this version

> [email protected] install /home/vagrant/parse-server-advanced/node_modules/bcrypt
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download
[bcrypt] Success: "/home/vagrant/parse-server-advanced/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/bcrypt_lib.node" is installed via remote

> [email protected] postinstall /home/vagrant/parse-server-advanced/node_modules/parse-server
> node -p 'require("./postinstall.js")()'


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