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EACCES issue with npm@5.4

See original GitHub issue

OSX 10.12.4 Node v8.4.0

npm 5.4 introduces permission errors when using node-notifier. Cannot use node-notifier if installed with npm 5.4. Probably something to do with new npm, but filing just in case this is relevant to node-notifier itself.

To replicate

> npm i -g npm@5.3
> npm i node-notifier

// index.js
const notifier = require('node-notifier');
notifier.notify('Message');
notifier.notify({
    'title': 'My notification',
    'message': 'Hello, there!'
});

> node index.js

(system notification appears. Works).

> npm i -g npm@5.4
> npm i node-notifier

>node index.js

Error: spawn EACCES
    at _errnoException (util.js:1041:11)
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:325:11)
    at exports.spawn (child_process.js:493:9)
    at Object.exports.execFile (child_process.js:208:15)
    at Object.module.exports.fileCommandJson (Desktop/temp/eaccess_npm5.4/node_modules/node-notifier/lib/utils.js:79:13)
    at NotificationCenter.notify (Desktop/temp/eaccess_npm5.4/node_modules/node-notifier/notifiers/notificationcenter.js:87:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (Desktop/temp/eaccess_npm5.4/index.js:3:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:573:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:584:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:507:32)

> npm i -g npm@5.3
> node index.js

Error: spawn EACCES
    at _errnoException (util.js:1041:11)
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:325:11)
    at exports.spawn (child_process.js:493:9)
    at Object.exports.execFile (child_process.js:208:15)
    at Object.module.exports.fileCommandJson (Desktop/temp/eaccess_npm5.4/node_modules/node-notifier/lib/utils.js:79:13)
    at NotificationCenter.notify (Desktop/temp/eaccess_npm5.4/node_modules/node-notifier/notifiers/notificationcenter.js:87:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (Desktop/temp/eaccess_npm5.4/index.js:3:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:573:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:584:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:507:32)

> npm i node-notifier
> node index.js

(works)