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Install Brew and set up for Standard OSX User
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# This script installs brew and chowns the right directories needed to run | |
# brew as a standard user. Your user should be the owner of /usr/local which | |
# gets set during the installation of brew. The global homebrew cache directory | |
# group should be set to 'staff' which is not set during a brew install. This | |
# script fixes that. | |
# To begin, you MUST execute this script with your user account while it has | |
# admin privileges. Once the script completes, you can change your | |
# user to a "standard" OSX user and retain use of brew without being an admin. | |
# The user executing the script. | |
username=`id -u -n` | |
# Install latest stable version of brew. | |
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" | |
# Update group ownership of global brew cache. | |
echo "Changing group ownership of /Library/Caches/Homebrew to staff..." | |
sudo chgrp staff /Library/Caches/Homebrew | |
sudo chown -Rv $username /usr/local | |
# Remove admin rights from current user. This is how you could make this | |
# change from the cli. | |
# sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d $USER -t user admin | |
# Tell user to remove admin rights and restart. | |
echo "Congrats! Brew is properly set up for a Standard OSX user. You can remove admin rights from your user account and restart." |
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@sscovil good catch, thanks man.