title: npm start starts the process to a different user
body: <p>I ran the following command as the root user.</p>
  <p><code>npm start</code></p>
  <p>But npm start switched the user to ubuntu before running the program.</p>
  <p>Any ideas what could cause this? This happened only after I upgraded to:</p>
  <pre><code>
  
  Here are the logs
  
  root$ npm start --verbose 
  
  npm verb cli [
  npm verb cli   '/usr/local/node-v16.13.0-linux-x64/bin/node',
  npm verb cli   '/usr/local/bin/npm',
  npm verb cli   'start',
  npm verb cli   '--verbose'
  npm verb cli ]
  npm info using npm@8.1.0
  npm info using node@v16.13.0
  npm timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 1ms
  npm timing config:load:defaults Completed in 2ms
  npm timing config:load:file:/usr/local/node-v16.13.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc Completed in 6ms
  npm timing config:load:builtin Completed in 6ms
  npm timing config:load:cli Completed in 3ms
  npm timing config:load:env Completed in 0ms
  npm timing config:load:file:/site/exmonitor/.npmrc Completed in 0ms
  npm timing config:load:project Completed in 1ms
  npm timing config:load:file:/root/.npmrc Completed in 1ms
  npm timing config:load:user Completed in 1ms
  npm timing config:load:file:/usr/local/node-v16.13.0-linux-x64/etc/npmrc Completed in 0ms
  npm timing config:load:global Completed in 0ms
  npm timing config:load:validate Completed in 0ms
  npm timing config:load:credentials Completed in 2ms
  npm timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
  npm timing config:load Completed in 16ms
  npm timing npm:load:configload Completed in 16ms
  npm timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 0ms
  npm timing npm:load:setupLog Completed in 0ms
  npm timing config:load:flatten Completed in 3ms
  npm timing npm:load:cleanupLog Completed in 3ms
  npm timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
  npm timing npm:load:projectScope Completed in 1ms
  npm timing npm:load Completed in 45ms
  
  &gt; app@0.0.0 start
  &gt; node ./bin/www
  
  Port 80 requires elevated privilegesload Completed in 45ms
  </code></pre>