[CB-7281] "cordova plugin add" issues nonsense EACCESS error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: cordova-lib

Environment

ubuntu 14.04

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: teo
• Created: 09/Aug/14 20:25
• Updated: 02/Dec/18 15:10
• Resolved: 02/Dec/18 15:10

Description

On a freshly created test application targeted at android, which works fine.

I ran:

$ cordova plugin add nl.sylvain.cordova.osc
Fetching plugin "nl.sylvain.cordova.osc" via plugin registry
Error: EACCES, mkdir '/home/teo/tmp/npm-20870-r97koGWy'

That doesn't make sense, as /home/teo is my home directory (I was running the above command as "teo"). There's no reason why that mkdir command should get an access denied error (if that's what EACCESS means).

This worked:
$ sudo cordova plugin add nl.sylvain.cordova.osc

however, there's no reason why sudo should be needed.