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I installed homebrew using my other user account (which I use during work), but it is impossible to install software from my newly created personal account:



$ brew install unrar

Error: Cannot write to /usr/local/Cellar


A ls -dl /usr/local/Cellar/ shows that the directory is owned by my other user account.



How do I configure homebrew to allow multiple users to install software?






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  • You can take control from the other user by doing sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
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I installed homebrew using my other user account (which I use during work), but it is impossible to install software from my newly created personal account:



$ brew install unrar

Error: Cannot write to /usr/local/Cellar


A ls -dl /usr/local/Cellar/ shows that the directory is owned by my other user account.



How do I configure homebrew to allow multiple users to install software?






mac user-accounts homebrew







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  • You can take control from the other user by doing sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
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I installed homebrew using my other user account (which I use during work), but it is impossible to install software from my newly created personal account:



$ brew install unrar

Error: Cannot write to /usr/local/Cellar


A ls -dl /usr/local/Cellar/ shows that the directory is owned by my other user account.



How do I configure homebrew to allow multiple users to install software?






mac user-accounts homebrew







share|improve this question













I installed homebrew using my other user account (which I use during work), but it is impossible to install software from my newly created personal account:



$ brew install unrar

Error: Cannot write to /usr/local/Cellar


A ls -dl /usr/local/Cellar/ shows that the directory is owned by my other user account.



How do I configure homebrew to allow multiple users to install software?






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mac user-accounts homebrew






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  • You can take control from the other user by doing sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
    – Nathan Lloyd
    Aug 20 at 22:14


















  • You can take control from the other user by doing sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
    – Nathan Lloyd
    Aug 20 at 22:14
















You can take control from the other user by doing sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
– Nathan Lloyd
Aug 20 at 22:14




You can take control from the other user by doing sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
– Nathan Lloyd
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set umaskfor each user first. (.basrc or .profile or .bash_profile)



umask 0002 # group write permission


then give write permission for groups via /usr/local recursively:



sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/


then change the owner to staff



sudo chgrp -R staff /usr/local


now, each user, who is in staff group can use brew install and other brew related operations... Mostly every user is in that group.






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    I had to do the same for /Library/Caches/Homebrew to make this actually work. And since all my users have Administrator Access enabled I skipped the chgrp
    – Duvrai
    Dec 16 '14 at 16:50




















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On the homebrew wiki, it mentions that you can install it anywere, try having local installations for each user.






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  • I don't want that, actually. I want the software to go to a common place irrespective of who installed it.
    – Sridhar Ratnakumar
    Jun 22 '11 at 3:36










  • I've tried this and wish I hadn't as you get messed up user permissions
    – MatthewFord
    Jul 12 '11 at 11:36


















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Here's my workaround:



su - myother_user_account -c "brew install ..."





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    This is not a recommended solution to the multiple-users problem. It requires users to be able to have root access and/or direct access to run commands as another user which kind of defeats the purpose of having user level privileges in the first place. You can break the model for your own use case given you own the box and both accounts, but it would be ill advised for anybody else to use this and your own system usage would be safer for using proper privilege separations.
    – Caleb
    Sep 18 '15 at 9:46











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set umaskfor each user first. (.basrc or .profile or .bash_profile)



umask 0002 # group write permission


then give write permission for groups via /usr/local recursively:



sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/


then change the owner to staff



sudo chgrp -R staff /usr/local


now, each user, who is in staff group can use brew install and other brew related operations... Mostly every user is in that group.






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    I had to do the same for /Library/Caches/Homebrew to make this actually work. And since all my users have Administrator Access enabled I skipped the chgrp
    – Duvrai
    Dec 16 '14 at 16:50

















up vote
13
down vote













set umaskfor each user first. (.basrc or .profile or .bash_profile)



umask 0002 # group write permission


then give write permission for groups via /usr/local recursively:



sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/


then change the owner to staff



sudo chgrp -R staff /usr/local


now, each user, who is in staff group can use brew install and other brew related operations... Mostly every user is in that group.






share|improve this answer



















  • 1




    I had to do the same for /Library/Caches/Homebrew to make this actually work. And since all my users have Administrator Access enabled I skipped the chgrp
    – Duvrai
    Dec 16 '14 at 16:50















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up vote
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set umaskfor each user first. (.basrc or .profile or .bash_profile)



umask 0002 # group write permission


then give write permission for groups via /usr/local recursively:



sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/


then change the owner to staff



sudo chgrp -R staff /usr/local


now, each user, who is in staff group can use brew install and other brew related operations... Mostly every user is in that group.






share|improve this answer














set umaskfor each user first. (.basrc or .profile or .bash_profile)



umask 0002 # group write permission


then give write permission for groups via /usr/local recursively:



sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/


then change the owner to staff



sudo chgrp -R staff /usr/local


now, each user, who is in staff group can use brew install and other brew related operations... Mostly every user is in that group.







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    I had to do the same for /Library/Caches/Homebrew to make this actually work. And since all my users have Administrator Access enabled I skipped the chgrp
    – Duvrai
    Dec 16 '14 at 16:50
















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    I had to do the same for /Library/Caches/Homebrew to make this actually work. And since all my users have Administrator Access enabled I skipped the chgrp
    – Duvrai
    Dec 16 '14 at 16:50










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I had to do the same for /Library/Caches/Homebrew to make this actually work. And since all my users have Administrator Access enabled I skipped the chgrp
– Duvrai
Dec 16 '14 at 16:50






I had to do the same for /Library/Caches/Homebrew to make this actually work. And since all my users have Administrator Access enabled I skipped the chgrp
– Duvrai
Dec 16 '14 at 16:50














up vote
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On the homebrew wiki, it mentions that you can install it anywere, try having local installations for each user.






share|improve this answer





















  • I don't want that, actually. I want the software to go to a common place irrespective of who installed it.
    – Sridhar Ratnakumar
    Jun 22 '11 at 3:36










  • I've tried this and wish I hadn't as you get messed up user permissions
    – MatthewFord
    Jul 12 '11 at 11:36















up vote
1
down vote













On the homebrew wiki, it mentions that you can install it anywere, try having local installations for each user.






share|improve this answer





















  • I don't want that, actually. I want the software to go to a common place irrespective of who installed it.
    – Sridhar Ratnakumar
    Jun 22 '11 at 3:36










  • I've tried this and wish I hadn't as you get messed up user permissions
    – MatthewFord
    Jul 12 '11 at 11:36













up vote
1
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up vote
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On the homebrew wiki, it mentions that you can install it anywere, try having local installations for each user.






share|improve this answer












On the homebrew wiki, it mentions that you can install it anywere, try having local installations for each user.







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  • I don't want that, actually. I want the software to go to a common place irrespective of who installed it.
    – Sridhar Ratnakumar
    Jun 22 '11 at 3:36










  • I've tried this and wish I hadn't as you get messed up user permissions
    – MatthewFord
    Jul 12 '11 at 11:36


















  • I don't want that, actually. I want the software to go to a common place irrespective of who installed it.
    – Sridhar Ratnakumar
    Jun 22 '11 at 3:36










  • I've tried this and wish I hadn't as you get messed up user permissions
    – MatthewFord
    Jul 12 '11 at 11:36
















I don't want that, actually. I want the software to go to a common place irrespective of who installed it.
– Sridhar Ratnakumar
Jun 22 '11 at 3:36




I don't want that, actually. I want the software to go to a common place irrespective of who installed it.
– Sridhar Ratnakumar
Jun 22 '11 at 3:36












I've tried this and wish I hadn't as you get messed up user permissions
– MatthewFord
Jul 12 '11 at 11:36




I've tried this and wish I hadn't as you get messed up user permissions
– MatthewFord
Jul 12 '11 at 11:36










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Here's my workaround:



su - myother_user_account -c "brew install ..."





share|improve this answer

















  • 1




    This is not a recommended solution to the multiple-users problem. It requires users to be able to have root access and/or direct access to run commands as another user which kind of defeats the purpose of having user level privileges in the first place. You can break the model for your own use case given you own the box and both accounts, but it would be ill advised for anybody else to use this and your own system usage would be safer for using proper privilege separations.
    – Caleb
    Sep 18 '15 at 9:46















up vote
0
down vote



accepted










Here's my workaround:



su - myother_user_account -c "brew install ..."





share|improve this answer

















  • 1




    This is not a recommended solution to the multiple-users problem. It requires users to be able to have root access and/or direct access to run commands as another user which kind of defeats the purpose of having user level privileges in the first place. You can break the model for your own use case given you own the box and both accounts, but it would be ill advised for anybody else to use this and your own system usage would be safer for using proper privilege separations.
    – Caleb
    Sep 18 '15 at 9:46













up vote
0
down vote



accepted







up vote
0
down vote



accepted






Here's my workaround:



su - myother_user_account -c "brew install ..."





share|improve this answer












Here's my workaround:



su - myother_user_account -c "brew install ..."






share|improve this answer












share|improve this answer



share|improve this answer










answered May 23 '11 at 4:05









Sridhar Ratnakumar

2,05683352




2,05683352








  • 1




    This is not a recommended solution to the multiple-users problem. It requires users to be able to have root access and/or direct access to run commands as another user which kind of defeats the purpose of having user level privileges in the first place. You can break the model for your own use case given you own the box and both accounts, but it would be ill advised for anybody else to use this and your own system usage would be safer for using proper privilege separations.
    – Caleb
    Sep 18 '15 at 9:46














  • 1




    This is not a recommended solution to the multiple-users problem. It requires users to be able to have root access and/or direct access to run commands as another user which kind of defeats the purpose of having user level privileges in the first place. You can break the model for your own use case given you own the box and both accounts, but it would be ill advised for anybody else to use this and your own system usage would be safer for using proper privilege separations.
    – Caleb
    Sep 18 '15 at 9:46








1




1




This is not a recommended solution to the multiple-users problem. It requires users to be able to have root access and/or direct access to run commands as another user which kind of defeats the purpose of having user level privileges in the first place. You can break the model for your own use case given you own the box and both accounts, but it would be ill advised for anybody else to use this and your own system usage would be safer for using proper privilege separations.
– Caleb
Sep 18 '15 at 9:46




This is not a recommended solution to the multiple-users problem. It requires users to be able to have root access and/or direct access to run commands as another user which kind of defeats the purpose of having user level privileges in the first place. You can break the model for your own use case given you own the box and both accounts, but it would be ill advised for anybody else to use this and your own system usage would be safer for using proper privilege separations.
– Caleb
Sep 18 '15 at 9:46


















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