Howdy,
Apologies if this is the wrong list for this question, feel free to
redirect me if so. :)
I am new to OS X, but familiar with Unix systems. I was trying to
install homebrew, and it sets the permissions for /usr/local as 0775,
owned by root:admin. The theory being that since I'm in the admin group
(confirmed by running both 'id' and 'groups') I should be able to write
to that directory. The problem is that I can't, I get a 'permission
denied' error. I tried recreating the situation in various other places
in the tree, same results. If I set the group ownership to my personal
group (which also happens to be the first one listed for 'id' or
'groups') then it works. If the group ownership is anything other than
my personal group (i.e., any of the others in the list after the first)
then I cannot write to the directory.
I'm running a fairly plain vanilla 10.9.4 system, there are no ACLs on
/, /usr/, or /usr/local, or any of the other locations I tried testing.
I have homebrew working, so that's not really my issue. I'm trying to
understand the problem more generally, and hopefully to find a solution.
FWIW, Sophos Anti-Virus is running on this system, but I'm not sure
that's the culprit.
Thoughts or suggestions are welcome. :)
TIA,
Doug
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