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markus2012

Interesting!

FYI atom-shell seems to work better with node v0.11 than node-webkit if you're trying to build little admin/maintenance utilities that need sudo.

node-webkit gets in the way of the sudo working.

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The idea of running a Javascript interpreter as root is more than somewhat worrying...

Why? You're already running an x86 "interpreter" (aka native code) as root, which is arguably even more dangerous than Javascript because of unsafe memory access.

Why does node-webkit interfere with sudo?

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