sudo-block

What is sudo-block?

The sudo-block npm package is designed to prevent users from running your Node.js application with superuser (sudo) privileges. This can be useful for security reasons, ensuring that your application does not inadvertently gain elevated permissions.

What are sudo-block's main functionalities?

Preventing sudo execution

This feature prevents the execution of your Node.js application with sudo privileges. By calling `sudoBlock()`, the application will exit with an error message if it detects that it is being run with superuser privileges.

const sudoBlock = require('sudo-block');
sudoBlock();

Other packages similar to sudo-block

is-root

The is-root package checks if the current process is running as the root user. Unlike sudo-block, it does not prevent execution but simply provides a boolean value indicating whether the process has root privileges. This can be useful for conditional logic based on user permissions.

README

sudo-block

Block users from running your app with root permissions

Install

npm install sudo-block

Usage

import sudoBlock from 'sudo-block';

sudoBlock();

API

sudoBlock(message?)

When a file containing this function is run with root permissions it will exit and show an error message telling the user how to fix the problem, so they don't have to run it with sudo.

message

Type: string

A custom message.