How to unfuck permissions

When working with npm (Node Package Manager), I picked up the horrible habit of throwing a sudo in front of npm install or npm up. Usually, I only did it when I got an error. This is bad. It becomes a headache at some point.

Here’s how to unfuck the permissions of any folder:

1. Do this: sudo chown -R $USER ~/.npm (you’ll want to change~/.npm to the directory with permissions issues.
2. And, if you get an error, maybe do the sudo chown -R $USER bit on the folder in question.

chown -R $USER simply changes the ownership to the user recursively to all the stuff in the folder.