I'm trying to self-host Supertokens Core, but it only works if I run it as administrator on Windows....

JeremyEastham

03/26/2022, 4:29 PM

I'm trying to self-host Supertokens Core, but it only works if I run it as administrator on Windows. I'm trying to start it when I start my server via npm's package.json, so I would prefer not to have to run my whole project as admin. How can I make sure that supertokens runs as admin on Windows and sudo on Linux? I've looked at

sudo-prompt

, but I'm not sure how to call it from a npm script like I can call

tsc

eslint

cross-env

, or

ts-node-dev

rp_st

03/26/2022, 4:31 PM

Hey @User

rp_st

03/26/2022, 4:31 PM

I’m not sure if there is a way to solve this in a quick way other than using docker

rp_st

03/26/2022, 4:31 PM

Try to run the core using the docker image and you won’t require it to run as admin

JeremyEastham

03/26/2022, 4:33 PM

I think it would probably work if you know of a utility that aliases sudo on Windows. Do you know how the npm packages that I listed can run in the context of package.json but not in cmd?

JeremyEastham

03/26/2022, 4:35 PM

I may eventually transition to Docker, but it is too heavy for my purposes so far.

rp_st

03/26/2022, 4:35 PM

I’m not sure about this. I don’t personally use windows

JeremyEastham

03/26/2022, 4:35 PM

Thanks anyway. I might try to see if it would work with sudo on WSL

JeremyEastham

03/26/2022, 4:54 PM

@User I solved my problem by installing gsudo: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

JeremyEastham

03/26/2022, 4:54 PM

I left

sudo supertokens start ...

in package.json and it just works now

rp_st

03/26/2022, 4:54 PM

I see! Fair enough!

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