LaunchAgents run in user context. Move your launchd job to /Library/LaunchDaemons to get it run as root. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Chris Waldrip <cwaldrip@me.com> wrote:

We have a script that we want to update automatically. The script checks for a new version when it runs, and it downloads a zip file, expands that, and installs the contents.

The script is executed from a plist in /System/Library/LaunchAgent/, so it should have root authorization.

Yet when the script runs and it executes the installer command line tool, the install fails for lack of root permission.

I modified the script to simply move (mv -f) the specific components to the appropriate locations (/System/Library/LaunchAgent, etc). But the move fails for lack of root permission.

What am I missing? :-(

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