Trying to follow good security practices on macOS, using a standard account instead of an admin account. But you can’t really install anything systemwide (I want to bc multiple users) using homebrew like this unless you run it with sudo and add your user to sudoers file but this is heavily discoura…

Install such packages from the admin account? Or use something like Privileges (not endorsed or recommend by Privacy Guides).

You can change the directory brew is installed in to a subdirectory of ~.

but then i would need to install everything system-wide. having 2 installations of homebrew for separate users isn’t recommended either. ideally i want to choose which packages i want to install system-wide and which per user. kinda crazy to me that there isn’t a supported easy way to do this consi…

regarding privileges i might look into this, is it discouraged by PG or just not mentioned at all?

just not mentioned, but some team members here seem to use it [image] Share your daily driver computer setup Off Topic 14" MacBook Pro: This is my daily driver which I use because I consider Apple Silicon to be more secure and generally better than Intel/AMD, it has the b…

yeah ive seen that after i wrote the comment. but i think i will just convert my account to admin, to save future me from headaches

I keep a terminal window open with ‘su admin’ running, specifically for homebrew. Maybe that’s a terrible security practice… :sweat_smile:

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just not mentioned, but some team members here seem to use it

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