OSX — WTF? Meteor needs sudo.

Disk Utility: Repair permissions.

• Can’t run meteor any more without using sudo?
• Can’t reset your project without sudo?
• Can’t install packages with Atmosphere without sudo?

Reason

Maybe you have run sudo mrt to install some npm requirements that didn’t have the permission to complete installation, like when installing iron-router or fast-render. Well that might have screwed up your permissions a bit.

The solution

Use the Disk Utility that comes with OSX and run Repair permissions, and woopie-doo problem solved, we can use meteor without sudo again.

The future

Hopefully we don’t need sudo for npm requirements to get installed for packages like iron-router when Meteor adds the package ecosystem that we’re now getting from Meteorite (mrt) and http://atmospherejs.com

Solution found here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20811022/meteor-requires-sudo-to-run