ppm install --check can run afoul of permissions

[savetheclocktower]

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What happened?

This is a bug report from the wild, but someone on Discord reported that pulsar -p install check produced this output:

gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Program Files\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\native-module\build'
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.19045
gyp ERR! command "C:\Program Files\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\bin\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Program Files\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\native-module
gyp ERR! node -v v16.0.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v9.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! module-with-native-code@ install: node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the module-with-native-code@ install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm WARN Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing, did you mean to install?

I can only assume the cause is the failure to create a directory in C:\Program Files\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\, and that's fair; seems like Pulsar was installed globally and the user isn't running as an administrator.

We might instead want to use a temporary directory here instead of assuming the current user can write to ppm's location.

Pulsar version

1.122

Which OS does this happen on?

🪟 Windows

OS details

(unknown Windows version)

Which CPU architecture are you running this on?

None

What steps are needed to reproduce this?

• Install Pulsar for all users
• Open a regular, non-administrator command prompt
• Run ppm install --check

I haven't tried this myself, but the symptoms here are strongly pointing me toward these reproduction steps. Hopefully a Windows user out there can verify.

Additional Information:

No response