Homebrew: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen

8 Nov 2022 10:15 homebrew macos

I’m getting a permission denied error when running brew search:

% brew search sed
Error: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /private/tmp/github_api_headers20221108-22911-hohvak

I don’t know what’s screwing up the permissions on /private/tmp, but here’s how to fix them:

sudo chown root:wheel /private/tmp
sudo chmod 1777 /private/tmp