I have a makefile, which I use to sudo make install for the parts of my app that generally require root installation. Unfortunately, this results in a strange situation where sudo doesn't have access to npm, while both root and my user do have access:
self:
$ which npm /home/self/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.1/bin/npm Root:
$ sudo su - root@theserver~# which npm /root/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.1/bin/npm exit
$ sudo which npm $ (that's a blank line, sudo which npm gives no result)
How do I resolve this discrepancy? What am I missing about the npm ecosystem that would allow me to do this differently?
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
cat /proc/version cat /etc/issue uname -a Linux version 3.13.0-44-generic (buildd@lamiak) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #73-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 16 00:22:43 UTC 2014 Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS \n \l Linux theserver 3.13.0-44-generic #73-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 16 00:22:43 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux PATH and HOME of standard user and root.
user@server:~$ cat ~/.profile # ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells. # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login # exists. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples. # the files are located in the bash-doc package. # the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask # for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package. #umask 022 # if running bash if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then # include .bashrc if it exists if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then . "$HOME/.bashrc" fi fi # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fi user@server:~$ sudo echo $PATH $HOME /home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.1/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games /home/user user@server:~$ echo $PATH $HOME /home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.1/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games /home/user user@server:~$ sudo su root@server:/home/user# echo $PATH $HOME /root/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.1/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games /root root@server:/home/user# cat ~/.profile # ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells. if [ "$BASH" ]; then if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi fi mesg n 