How to set permissions in linux ubuntu so as not to take a steam bath?

Question

linux

From time to time I encounter troubles when installing packages in ubuntu. Some part is solved by using sudo su and some part is not given up.
Once again I decided to launch a BEM project. Registered in the console yo bem-stub as root.
As a result, I have Error: EACCES, permission denied '/root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml'
You don't have access to this file.

Prompt links where to esteem about adjustment of the rights
Or on each folder to expose the rights manually?

Answer 1

You did sudo su, which logged you in as root, whose home directory is /root/. Next, you apparently did npm install yo, which installed yo locally as root.
I do it all the time sudo командаand have no problems. I don't remember the last time I had to log in as root.

Answer 2

I recommend setting up npm for the current user and not using sudo :

echo "prefix=~/.local" > ~/.npmrc
echo "export NODE_PATH=\$NODE_PATH:~/.local/lib/node_modules" >>  ~/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=~/.local/bin:\$PATH" >>  ~/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=./node_modules/.bin:\$PATH" >>  ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

After that, you need to reinstall all global packages.