In trying to setup the proxmark3 environment I ran into a frustrating problem, it was setup to be installed with brew… oh no.<\/p>\n
My current MacOs version is MacOs BigSur 11.1, so this works with that version, Intel anyway, I don’t have an Apple silicon machine to test with, but it could require some tweaks to work.<\/p>\n
I have used brew before and I have always had issues with how it works and where it puts files, and the way that the brew developers were uploading analytics was kinda sneaky as in this post.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=11566720<\/a><\/p>\n Yeah this is a while ago, but, how the dev team of brew, being open source and all appealing to developers and the open source community would be a little sneaky about this was not cool. \u00a0Not to drag on this topic, but I really don’t think brew needs sudo access to my whole computer, just last month I completly wiped and reinstalled MacOs (latest version too) to rid myself of all the development “junk” that I just allowed to be installed anywhere… yeah development software will turn your computer\u00a0into a trash can of random files and\u00a0junk eventually if you don’t carefully watch it.<\/p>\n According to brew itself it says it does not require sudo, but it STILL wants sudo access to install… meh.<\/p>\n https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/655113\/understanding-homebrew-no-sudo-philosophy-and-questioning-faq<\/p>\n Anyway, being forced into a corner to install brew to install the proxmark3 development tools I decided I would play it safe, I created a new non-admin user account called “proxmark3” to play it safe, and installed brew on that account without sudo with the following script, I had to modify it slightly though which I will explain here. \u00a0Original is below.<\/p>\n