Running tlmgr/tlshell with sudo

After performing a network install of the pretest with

sudo ./install-tl -repository http://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/local/tlpretest/ -gui text

two days ago, and attempting to use texdoc this morning, I'm getting

% texdoc xindy
texdoc warning: Failed to create cache file in /Users/brunovoisin/Library/texlive/2026/texmf-var/texdoc/cache-tlpdb.lua:
texdoc warning: Permission denied

The explanation seems to be: after the install I ran "sudo tlshell" to see how the tlmgr GUI looked like; this created a config file in TEXMFCONFIG, namely (I'm on the Mac) the tree

~/Library/texlive/2026/
~/Library/texlive/2026/texmf-config/
~/Library/texlive/2026/texmf-config/tlmgr/
~/Library/texlive/2026/texmf-config/tlmgr/config

all with root ownership, in my home directory.

This comes from running "sudo tlshell" instead of "sudo -H tlshell". Doing the latter instead, I get

/var/root/Library/texlive/2026/
/var/root/Library/texlive/2026/texmf-config/
/var/root/Library/texlive/2026/texmf-config/tlmgr/
/var/root/Library/texlive/2026/texmf-config/tlmgr/config

I'm surprised though: I thought the scripts written by Norbert (like updmap-sys) made sure the user didn't need to specify -H explicitly.

Or maybe this is specific to tlshell, not tlmgr?

This may be entirely my fault: I'm not experienced with tlmgr or tlshell, I generally use TeX Live Utility on the Mac. I'm just reporting in case the above is not intended behavior.

Bruno Voisin