Cocoapods: please add the option to run as root

[heidji]

I only know of cocoapods because some cordova plugin decided to integrate your library. so what happens is I build the whole Ionic project, the said cordova plugin compiles and then it all fails because you guys decided running sudo is unsafe.

ok, well the problem is npm, ionic and cordova, all three involved in the build process, disagree because all of them require privileges in order to compile correctly so after 3 crashes or so i decided to chown/chmod my whole computer which defeats the purpose of the supposed safety provided by supressing root user.

Please do understand that many of us know what they're doing or don't even care about the safety of their computer.. (I am running my iOS builds on a VM, so yeah I really don't care) so please give us the option to get on with our day and don't be the bottleneck of the big picture.

Thanks.

[dnkoutso]

I do not quite understand the request here. Can you not invoke CocoaPods as root already?

[orta]

There's more context here https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/6795

[heidji]

@dnkoutso no, if Cocoapods is called like for example "pod install" with sudo or when the user who called the process is "root", it will fail with an error message.
And I would kindly like to have the option to "shoot myself in the foot" if I want to :)

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[heidji]

lame but ok

[zaneclaes]

This "security feature" no longer makes sense in a Dockerized world. Moreover, it doesn't play nice with other CI tools which occasionally require root access.

[amorde]

Seems like adding a --allow-root option would be reasonable

[heidji]

it would also make it easier for people like me who use parent processes that call cocoapods to globally set --allow-root

[amorde]

👍 PRs welcome!

[heidji]

@amorde won't come from me, I don't code Ruby :D

[amorde]

I didn't either until working on CocoaPods :)

I'll mark as a starter ticket if someone new wants to give it a shot, I'm not personally planning on working on this in the near future.

[amorde]

Still open to contributions on this - the code that controls this error message is here:

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/blob/master/lib/cocoapods/command.rb#L47

A good place to add the argument is here:

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/blob/master/lib/cocoapods/command.rb#L42

Tests for this live here:

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/blob/master/spec/unit/command_spec.rb

[michaelpeterlee]

This is feature still not released.
gem install cocoapods --pre

[harinderorg]

hello everyone... i have same issue,
i have ionic project when i run build command, its always ended with some errors that you can't run pod as root.
please help how can we disable this

[amorde]

As mentioned above, the option to allow running as root has been merged but isn't released yet. You can install the beta with --pre if you'd like to use it

[harinderorg]

thanks for responding,
can you tell me exact command to execute to install beta?

[amorde]

gem install cocoapods --pre