Anyone? Bueller? :) ... any other places where I could ask this question?
On 9/6/14 1:01 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
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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