<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 29, 2016, at 01:27 , Zdenek Wagner <<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com" class="">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> Thus many years ago I manually created (as root) /usr/local/texlive and changed ownership of this directory to me. Can MacTeX bi installed by an ordinary user if this additional step is done manually using sudo?</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I don't think anyone has answered specifically: NO. </div><div>Apple's installer will reset the ownership of the tree to root,</div><div>which is the default for /usr/local. You can use chown -R to</div><div>change it _after_ install, and I do this on one of my systems</div><div>to ensure that TeX Live Utility keeps working with unprivileged</div><div>users.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The worst problems I've seen are from users who set an overly</div><div>restrictive umask because they took advice from some random</div><div>dude on the internet. Explaining how this is a problem just</div><div>leads to "MUH PERMISSIONS" and "MUH SECURITY."</div><div><br class=""></div><div>By and large, Mac users are morons about UNIX, and should not</div><div>take (or be given) advice from UNIX users, especially with</div><div>respect to permissions and environment variables. In my opinion,</div><div>of course, as a long-time Mac user.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-- adam</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>