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Re: Running processes as non-root after an install
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Re: Running processes as non-root after an install


  • Subject: Re: Running processes as non-root after an install
  • From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:25:04 -0800

/usr/bin/su $USER -c "/usr/bin/open /the/path/to/your/application"

?

Just out of curiosity, why not just require a logout (since it's an agent)?

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Andrew Keller <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My installer installs, among other things, a user agent in /Library/LaunchAgents.  I understand that it is extremely difficult to start up the user agent because of the multi-user problem, so I am just going to require a restart.
>
> Nonetheless, I am curious.  Is there an expected way to run commands as the currently logged in user after the install process?  I thought about using `sudo -u $USER ...`, but I can think of more than one modification to the sudoers file that would break it.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Keller

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