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Bug 430651

Summary:	[terminal] npm install fails
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Anthony Hunter <ahunter.eclipse>
Component:	Docker	Assignee:	Anthony Hunter <ahunter.eclipse>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.0
Target Milestone:	6.0 M1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Anthony Hunter

2014-03-18 20:01:37 EDT

node.js is installed into a docker container according to the documentation. When the user tries to install a package using npm install in the Orion terminal, even without the global flag, you get an access denied error.

By default npm assumes you are an admin:
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

There are published workarounds to solve this issue that need to be added to the Dockerfile.

Comment 1 Anthony Hunter

2014-03-18 20:38:25 EDT

Resolved by commits in Bug 430327, specifically the last three lines in:
http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.server.git/diff/bundles/org.eclipse.orion.server.docker/Dockerfile.base?id=276be3c8d1a732361afda9edb4ec6e47381bf511

The user account in the terminal now matches the Orion userid and the user account is in the user group, so these changes solve the issue.

# allow end user npm install -g without needing root by adding group privileges
RUN chgrp -R users /usr/local/
RUN chmod -R g+w /usr/local/

p.s. the best resource for the npm permission workarounds is at https://gist.github.com/isaacs/579814