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Homebrew Permissions Fix
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Homebrew Permissions Fix

Everyone hates antivirus software – except IT departments.

Sophos does a particularly annoying thing on my work MacBook... some process (I think it's called "Sweep") constantly changes the permissions on /usr/local/bin so that I can't update or install Homebrew packages.

This unlocks things temporarily:

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/bin

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