sudo-block
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Block users from running your app with root permissions
npm install sudo-block
import sudoBlock from 'sudo-block';
sudoBlock();
When a file containing this function is run with root permissions it will exit and show an error message telling the user how to fix the problem, so they don't have to run it with sudo.
Type: string
A custom message.
The is-root package checks if the current process is running as the root user. Unlike sudo-block, it does not prevent execution but simply provides a boolean value indicating whether the process has root privileges. This can be useful for conditional logic based on user permissions.
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Block users from running your app with root permissions
The npm package sudo-block receives a total of 439,958 weekly downloads. As such, sudo-block popularity was classified as popular.
We found that sudo-block demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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