# Resin-cli overrides system sudo

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/resin-cli-overrides-system-sudo/2631>\
**Category:** Product support\
**Tags:** resin-cli\
**Created:** [March 2, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/resin-cli-overrides-system-sudo/2631 "2018-03-02T10:25:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![don\_nico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@don\_nico](https://forums.balena.io/u/don_nico)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/resin-cli-overrides-system-sudo/2631/1 "2018-03-02T10:25:07Z")

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Hi there,

as per title due to a npm hierarchy going really bad resin-cli is installing a bin called sudo in the npm / yarn global module folder.

See this issue for details and workaroud:

> <https://github.com/balena-io/balena-cli/issues/800>

I believe this needs the utmost attention so I am posting it here too

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**Author:** ![pimterry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/pimterry/32/140_2.png) [@pimterry](https://forums.balena.io/u/pimterry)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/resin-cli-overrides-system-sudo/2631/9 "2018-03-02T10:51:36Z")

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Thanks for this. This doesn’t look like a general issue for all users, but it does need further investigation. I’ve replied on the github issue above, let’s continue there.