Hey y'all. Thanks for always helping out. I've learned a lot from this channel. My project uses a 3rd-party dependency that interfaces with USB cameras, and on my platform, it has to be run with sudo. However,

sudo pants run

seems to have some unexpected side-effects. Mainly, it changes ownership of .pants.d/, among other paths, so that when I go to run pants commands without sudo, I get permission denied errors. A

chown

of the relevant directories gets things back to normal, but I'm wondering if there's any way to avoid this?

That sounds like an issue well beyond Pants. Any process you run that creates files will have this problem.

That's a good thought. I'll give it a try. Just to double-check, I don't suppose there would be a way to run a pants subprocess as sudo without the entire invocation? I guess I might be able to build a pex and run that with sudo, but that has other downsides.