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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by laurent92 on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:22PM (#28751592)
Imagine that guy has this big npm repository locally with all those dodgy libraries with uncontrolled origin, in their /lib/node_modules with root permissions.

Wait, we all do, here.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by victor9000 on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:14PM (#28752161)
You can use a custom npm prefix to avoid the mess you're describing. So basically:

See current prefix:

> npm config get prefix

Set prefix to something you can write to without sudo:

> npm config set prefix /some/custom/path

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