I 've just changed my OS x/MAC main user-I 've created a new 'CODER' user account that I want to use for development instead of my old 'lombard' account. I realized that a lot of my applications I 've previusly installed via homebrew now had to be changed to be owned by the new coder user. first I ran 'brew doctor' find see what obvious issues I have:
Gerts-Mac-mini:src coder$ brew doctorWarning: /usr/local/etc isn‘t writable.This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn‘t managed byby Homebrew. If a brew tries to write a file to this directory, theinstall will fail during the link step.You should probably `chown` /usr/local/etcxcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at ‘/Applications/Xcode.app‘, requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools.xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at ‘/Applications/Xcode.app‘, requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools.Warning: You have an outdated version of /usr/bin/install_name_tool installed.This will cause binary package installations to fail.This can happen if you install osx-gcc-installer or RailsInstaller.To restore it, you must reinstall OS X or restore the binary fromthe OS packages.Warning: Git could not be found in your PATH.Homebrew uses Git for several internal functions, and some formulae use Gitcheckouts instead of stable tarballs. You may want to install Git: brew install gitWarning: No developer tools installed.Install the Command Line Tools: xcode-select --installxcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at ‘/Applications/Xcode.app‘, requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools.
Indeed, several files/directories below '/usr/local 'were created by homebrew as user 'lombard ':
Gerts-Mac-mini:src coder$ ls -l /usr/localtotal 80-rw-r--r-- 1 lombard admin 3158 5 Jun 09:16 CODEOFCONDUCT.md-rw-r--r-- 1 lombard admin 687 5 Jun 09:16 CONTRIBUTING.mddrwxr-xr-x 4 lombard admin 136 17 Jun 17:11 Cellar-rw-r--r-- 1 lombard admin 1253 5 Jun 09:16 LICENSE.txtdrwxr-xr-x 9 lombard admin 306 17 Jun 17:11 Library-rw-r--r-- 1 lombard admin 1858 5 Jun 09:16 README.md-rw-r--r-- 1 lombard admin 23719 5 Jun 09:16 SUPPORTERS.mddrwxrwxr-x 12 root admin 408 17 Jun 17:11 bindrwxr-xr-x 3 lombard admin 102 17 Jun 17:11 etcdrwxrwxr-x 5 root admin 170 17 Jun 17:11 libdrwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 17 Jun 17:11 libexecdrwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 136 17 Jun 17:11 share
I can't just use 'chown-R' because I only want to change the owner of some specific files. to recursively fix/change the owner only of files specifically owned by another user, use the versatile 'Find 'command:
$ find . -user lombard -exec sudo chown coder {} \;
Now I just took care of the other things that brew doctor complained about:
$ xcode-select --install$ brew update
That's it! Now I'm ready to install more tools using homebrew using the new user account.