{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/2427","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/2427/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/2427/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/2427/events","html_url":"https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/2427","id":2667661,"number":2427,"title":"OS X .pkg installer might not need root","user":{"login":"cowboy","id":54051,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54051?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy","html_url":"https://github.com/cowboy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cowboy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/labels/feature-request","name":"feature-request","color":"0b02e1"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/labels/installer","name":"installer","color":"944008"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/labels/macintosh","name":"macintosh","color":"02e10c"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2011-12-28T00:09:35Z","updated_at":"2015-06-22T18:28:22Z","closed_at":"2015-06-22T18:28:21Z","body":"When installing via OS X .pkg installer, is there any way to remove root auth or only require root auth if the installer actually needs it? On OS X 10.7, I can `touch /usr/local/bin/foo` without `sudo`, so the `node-v0.6.6.pkg` installer shouldn't need root either, right?\r\n\r\n(I'm trying to automate installation)\r\n\r\n```sh\r\n$ installer -pkg /tmp/node-v0.6.6.pkg -target /\r\ninstaller: Must be run as root to install this package.\r\n\r\n$ sudo installer -pkg /tmp/node-v0.6.6.pkg -target /\r\nPassword:\r\ninstaller: Package name is Node\r\ninstaller: Upgrading at base path /\r\ninstaller: The upgrade was successful.\r\n```\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/comments/114208928","html_url":"https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/2427#issuecomment-114208928","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/2427","id":114208928,"user":{"login":"jasnell","id":439929,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/439929?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell","html_url":"https://github.com/jasnell","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jasnell/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-06-22T18:28:21Z","updated_at":"2015-06-22T18:28:21Z","body":"Closing this here. Would defer to nodejs/build WG. "}}