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Install separate from pown, no response. #2

Closed Metroxe closed 5 years ago

Metroxe commented 5 years ago

I installed as the README instructured

When I run ./node_modules/.bin/pown-cli whoarethey

I get no response, no errors or crashing

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pdparchitect commented 5 years ago

I will update the documentation. You will need to specify where the root of pown is.

POWN_ROOT=. ./node_modules/.bin/pown-cli whoarethey

Metroxe commented 5 years ago

this did not solve the issue. I tried to install globally as shown here. Still cannot get a response

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Is it possibly my node version?

felipe19930 commented 5 years ago

I used yarn to install globally and got the same behavior, but I finally got it to work.

First make sure you have the output of yarn global bin in your PATH variable, e.g.:

$ export PATH="$(yarn global bin):$PATH"

Then install pown, globally:

$ yarn global add pown

Now to actually run pown:

$ POWN_ROOT="$(yarn global dir)/node_modules/@pown/whoarethey" pown whoarethey 1password

And of course you add that big-ass command as an alias in your ~/.bashrc / ~/.zshrc, etc.:

alias pown="POWN_ROOT=$(yarn global dir)/node_modules/@pown/whoarethey pown"

Not sure if there's an easier way to do this (I'm not familiar with NodeJS), but hey, works for me™

pdparchitect commented 5 years ago

Perhaps it is not clear from the documentation but pown is made from several discrete parts. It is not really a framework like Metasploit. One part is the CLI. Another is the module system. We have some modules like this one as well. This allow for modules to be small and lean and reused as libraries without indirectly including the rest.

This makes it difficult to install commands like this one globally. You can install it locally or install pown globally or install it via pown globally. If you want to create a standalone version of this common you will need the CLI at the very least and do what you did above.

Alternatively you can make your own distributions. You can take any number of pown commonds and assamble them into a module like pown. Only the commands you depend on will be included. Imagine you want to build a pown distributed for web security, osint, etc.

Metroxe commented 5 years ago

I did fix my problem for the global and local installation. I was using node v8.11.4, when I switched to v10.15.3, everything worked via the instructions on the README

pdparchitect commented 5 years ago

I would recommend 11 for full compatability with all modules but this one should work in 10.