npx permission issue when PWD has different owner compared to install

[miki725]

a bit of context:

• running things in docker in this case
• docker image has a bunch of pre-commit hooks preinstalled
• then mounting $PWD to actually run lint checks in CI
• however github actions PWD does not belong to root which causes issues for npx
• docker runtime user is root
• since pwd in container has a different owner npx is not happy:

root@5ed5df3566d5:/home/yay# source /tmp/pyright-python.root/env/bin/activate

(env) root@5ed5df3566d5:/home/yay# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

(env) root@5ed5df3566d5:/home/yay# ls -la . | head -n2
total 28
drwx------ 1  970  970  218 Aug  2 03:07 .

(env) root@5ed5df3566d5:/home/yay# which npx
/tmp/pyright-python.root/env/bin/npx

(env) root@5ed5df3566d5:/home/yay# npx --version
8.19.1

(env) root@5ed5df3566d5:/home/yay# npx -- [email protected] --version
sh: 1: pyright: Permission denied

however if I cd to root home folder it works fine:

(env) root@5ed5df3566d5:/home/yay# cd

(env) root@5ed5df3566d5:~# npx -- [email protected] --version
pyright 1.1.271

any reason npx is used in general? it seems to be deprecated https://github.com/npm/npx

[miki725]

looks like it might be related to a bug in npm itself. if it gets resolved, this will need to switch to use npm exec vs npx which is deprecated now

https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/5533