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How to run electron app as sudo/root user?

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In my npm start script I have sudo electron . but after running the packager the app does not start with sudo privileges. Can someone point me in the right direction for starting electron app as sudo user?

Some of my npm modules require sudo access for them to work

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Created 6 years ago
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jorangreefcommented, Aug 25, 2017

@miguelmota I am the author of sudo-prompt, which uses essentially the same osascript (but with support for status code, stdout, stderr and an application icon in the Mac prompt) as well as cross-platform support. How could sudo-prompt be improved to work better for you?

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maleptcommented, May 7, 2017

I do not endorse the idea of starting an Electron app as root. Starting up a web browser engine with administrator access is a large security risk. What you should do instead is run it as an unprivileged user, and then use a module like sudo-prompt to call the app again with a Node script that contains all the logic that requires superuser privileges, but with the ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE variable set in the child environment.

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