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brew-user

A seperate user that manages homebrew. This would be useful for systems that have multiple users so there would be a user that has the privelege to manage homebrew.

All users can execute programs installed with brew but can't make any changes in the brew directory except for brew user and of course root (which shouldn't be used for homebrew)

Overview

Brew should work like normal but executing the command would be a little different. These commands use the sudo password.

Three commands are added

• brewsh run this to enter a shell in the brew user

• ebrew execute commands with privleges of the brew user (Now fixed)

• sbrew runs the brew command as brew. Works the same way as the brew command so args and flags would be the same as brew

The brew command can be used for things that don't require writing data (like listing packages). If you want to install, uninstall, or update packages, The sbrew command is needed.

Installation

Run this in the terminal

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dnkmmr69420/brew-user/main/curl.sh | bash

Mac Installation (Experimental)

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dnkmmr69420/brew-user/main/mac-curl.sh | bash

Uninstallation

Run this to remove homebrew and its other files

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dnkmmr69420/brew-user/main/uninstall.sh | bash

Mac Uninstallation (Experimental)

Just run these

sudo dscl . -delete /Users/brew
sudo rm -rf /opt/brewuser
sudo rm -rf /opt/homebrew

Known issues and workarounds

homebrew can't read working directory

Workaround: Type cd / to change to a workdir that is readable to the brew user.

Experimental MacOS support now