Only error out for `sudo brew install`

Note this only happens if Homebrew is *not* installed sudo. Which is most of the time true.

Fixes #6899

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/bin/brew b/bin/brew
index 4d6014c85..5fe19cc89 100755
--- a/bin/brew
+++ b/bin/brew
@@ -26,11 +26,6 @@ when '-v'
   end
 end
 
-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'"
-end
 case HOMEBREW_PREFIX.to_s when '/', '/usr'
   # it may work, but I only see pain this route and don't want to support it
   abort "Cowardly refusing to continue at this prefix: #{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}"