If you run npm with root, npm will run scripts with the user "nobody" by default. This means that npm doesn't run scripts as root even if you run "npm install"

If you run npm with root, npm will run scripts with the user "nobody" by default. This means that npm doesn't run scripts as root even if you run "npm install" with root. You can set another user instead of nobody with the "user" option and you can disable switching UID/GID using the "unsafe-perm" option but DO NOT DO THIS. More information here: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/config https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/config edit: added more details.