nvm Set the permissions so that the group is allowed to write in there and all file will inherit the group chmod g+ws.

Set the permissions so that the group is allowed to write in there and all file will inherit the group # chmod g+ws. Goto the /opt directory and create a directory called nvm Make sure the groupd owner is nvm chown :nvm.

Make sure the groupd owner is nvm # chown :nvm.

Goto the /opt directory and create a directory called nvm.

Add root to the nvm group # usermod -aG nvm root.

Create a group called 'nvm', # groupadd nvm.

I've done this on a debian 8 machine, as the root user.

This is the solution I came up with: (shout out to for the initial version)

Some users should be able to install newer versions of node.

Every user should be able to select a installed version of node (or use $ nvm exec).

NVM should just work in non-interactive sessions.For a time I worked around this by sourcing the nvm script everywhere but that seems to be a somewhat unmaintainable solution. I needed a global install of NVM because I have some node based cron jobs and a few legacy applications that are rather picky about which version of node they are able to work on.

Install nvm on ubuntu