Ensuring correct ~/.config folder ownership fails on shared hosting

Summary

On a shared hosting we do not own root user. Ghost will fail during the install because it check that current user has right on the ~/.config folder.

I don’t understand why because it don’t seems to be required during the install. I successfully install Ghost on this shared hosting by commenting this step.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Having a user that doesn’t not own the ~/.config folder.
2. Run ghost install

Technical details

This is automatically output by Ghost-CLI if an error occurs, please copy & paste:

• OS: Debian
• Node Version: 8.10.0
• Ghost-CLI Version: 1.9.9
• Environment: production
• Command: ghost install

Log

uid****@od-***:~/blog3$ ghost install
+ sudo chown -R ****_blog:****_blog /home/clients/*******/.config
? Sudo Password [input is hidden] 

I do not own the root password… Could we remove this check or making it optional?

[acburdine]

@L3o-pold added the environment variable skip in - the fix should be released as part of Ghost-CLI 1.10 once that happens (should hopefully be in the next couple of weeks)

[L3o-pold]

@llakssz You need to edit the node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/utils/pre-check.js file to ignore this requirement.