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# How to I install untrusted packages safely? Is it safe to run Composer as superuser or root?
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Composer has a plugin system, and plugins are enabled automatically when installed. This means that
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they can theoretically be used as an attack vector, and you should not blindly trust any package you
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install. For this reason, it is strongly advised to **avoid running Composer as super-user/root**.
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In some cases, like in CI systems or such where you want to install dependencies blindly, the safest
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way to do it is to run `composer install --no-plugins --no-scripts`. This basically disables plugins
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and scripts from executing, so that only Composer's code will run.
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