Error EACCES permission denied access usr local lib node modules react

Question

What might be causing the error Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'?

npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!  { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/macbookmd101/.npm/_logs/2018-02-21T16_26_08_421Z-debug.log

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

Change your file permissions like this

First check who owns the directory

ls -la /usr/local/lib/node_modules

It is denying access because the node_module folder is owned by root

drwxr-xr-x   3 root    wheel  102 Jun 24 23:24 node_modules

so this needs to be changed by changing root to your user but first run command below to check your current user:

id -un

OR

whoami

then change owner

sudo chown -R [owner]:[owner] /usr/local/lib/node_modules

OR

sudo chown -R ownerName: /usr/local/lib/node_modules

Hope it works!!

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Thank you!!

Comments

Thank you! This solved the exact problem I was having this morning.

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It's work for me but i give permission befor address like;

sudo chown -R ownerName: /usr/local/

Answer 2

Hello @Kartik,

Problem is of permissions. same I was having in one of my nodejs script. I resolved simply by running the file using proper user.

>sudo su  [or whatever your user of nodejs ]

>node myscript.js    [what ever your way to run your VUE /Angular /React]

it work.

Don't change global permission of nodejs folder as it is not good practice, as there are lots of users using global nodejs modules or packages.

-Fedrik