doctor: unify chown messages

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#45398.

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb
index 6423abe0b..90d718ba8 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb
@@ -408,11 +408,12 @@ class Checks
 
     return if cant_read.empty?
     inject_file_list cant_read.sort, <<-EOS.undent
-    Some directories in #{target} aren't writable.
-    This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed
-    by Homebrew. If a brew tries to add locale information to one of these
-    directories, then the install will fail during the link step.
-    You should probably `chown` them:
+      Some directories in #{target} aren't writable.
+      This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed
+      by Homebrew. If a brew tries to add locale information to one of these
+      directories, then the install will fail during the link step.
+
+      You should probably `sudo chown -R $(whoami)` them:
     EOS
   end
 
@@ -427,7 +428,10 @@ class Checks
   def check_access_homebrew_repository
     unless HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY.writable_real? then <<-EOS.undent
       The #{HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY} is not writable.
-      You should probably `chown` #{HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY}
+
+      You should probably change the ownership and permissions of #{HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY}
+      back to your user account.
+        sudo chown -R $(whoami) #{HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY}
     EOS
     end
   end
@@ -467,7 +471,9 @@ class Checks
       by Homebrew. If a formula tries to write a file to this directory, the
       install will fail during the link step.
 
-      You should probably `chown` #{dir}
+      You should probably change the ownership and permissions of #{dir}
+      back to your user account.
+        sudo chown -R $(whoami) #{dir}
       EOS
       end
     end
@@ -481,7 +487,9 @@ class Checks
       by Homebrew. If you install a formula with Python modules, the install
       will fail during the link step.
 
-      You should probably `chown` #{Language::Python.homebrew_site_packages}
+      You should probably change the ownership and permissions of #{Language::Python.homebrew_site_packages}
+      back to your user account.
+        sudo chown -R $(whoami) #{Language::Python.homebrew_site_packages}
     EOS
     end
   end
@@ -491,7 +499,10 @@ class Checks
       <<-EOS.undent
       #{HOMEBREW_LOGS} isn't writable.
       Homebrew writes debugging logs to this location.
-      You should probably `chown` #{HOMEBREW_LOGS}
+
+      You should probably change the ownership and permissions of #{HOMEBREW_LOGS}
+      back to your user account.
+        sudo chown -R $(whoami) #{HOMEBREW_LOGS}
     EOS
     end
   end
@@ -502,7 +513,10 @@ class Checks
       #{HOMEBREW_CACHE} isn't writable.
       This can happen if you run `brew install` or `brew fetch` as another user.
       Homebrew caches downloaded files to this location.
-      You should probably `chown` #{HOMEBREW_CACHE}
+
+      You should probably change the ownership and permissions of #{HOMEBREW_CACHE}
+      back to your user account.
+        sudo chown -R $(whoami) #{HOMEBREW_CACHE}
     EOS
     end
   end
@@ -511,7 +525,10 @@ class Checks
     if HOMEBREW_CELLAR.exist? && !HOMEBREW_CELLAR.writable_real?
       <<-EOS.undent
       #{HOMEBREW_CELLAR} isn't writable.
-      You should `chown` #{HOMEBREW_CELLAR}
+
+      You should probably change the ownership and permissions of #{HOMEBREW_CELLAR}
+      back to your user account.
+        sudo chown -R $(whoami) #{HOMEBREW_CELLAR}
     EOS
     end
   end
@@ -521,7 +538,9 @@ class Checks
     if opt.exist? && !opt.writable_real?
       <<-EOS.undent
       #{opt} isn't writable.
-      You should `chown` #{opt}
+      You should probably change the ownership and permissions of #{opt}
+      back to your user account.
+        sudo chown -R $(whoami) #{opt}
     EOS
     end
   end