Permission denied error when copying to /usr/local/bin
The GitHub setup page at https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git has a section on password caching. It states to download the osxkeychain and copy it to /usr/local/bin. I downloaded the file, but get a permission denied error when I try to copy it to the directory specified. How can I get this file copied?
You will need to use sudo cp
instead of just cp
to copy a file to /usr/local/bin
because /usr/*
is only writable for root.