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| -rw-r--r-- | Library/Homebrew/cmd/link.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/link.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/link.rb index d222f3d25..df3445aa5 100644 --- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/link.rb +++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/link.rb @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ module Homebrew extend self def link raise KegUnspecifiedError if ARGV.named.empty? + if Process.uid.zero? and not File.stat(HOMEBREW_BREW_FILE).uid.zero? + # note we only abort if Homebrew is *not* installed as sudo and the user + # calls brew as root. The fix is to chown brew to root. + abort "Cowardly refusing to `sudo brew link'" + end + ARGV.kegs.each do |keg| print "Linking #{keg}... " puts if ARGV.verbose? |