> I'd like to install a zsh completion script for a CLI tool when it's
> installed globally (i.e. npm install -g). This would mean putting a file in
> /usr/share/zsh/site-functions (or wherever zsh was installed). That usually
> requires root permissions. When testing this with an install script, it
> fails. Checking the documentation, I see

> BEST PRACTICES
> [...]
>        o   Don't prefix your script commands with "sudo".  If root
> permissions are required for some reason,
>            then it'll fail with that error, and the user will sudo the npm
> command in question.

> So a "sudo npm install -g" would run the script as root? No:

> USER
>        If npm was invoked with root privileges, then it will change the uid
> to the user account or uid spec-
>        ified  by  the  user  config, which defaults to nobody.  Set the
> unsafe-perm flag to run scripts with
>        root privileges.

> So is there no way to get the install script to run with root privs (apart
> from setting 'unsafe-perm')? Using sudo from within the script itself
> wouldn't work either, since it's run as nobody...

> Is this simply outside the scope of npm, hence not supported and I should
> implement something like "mycommand install-completion" instead, to be used
> after the installation is complete?

> //jb