site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev@lists.apple.com I tried modifying my script like this... realUserName=`echo $USER` So I seem to have the opposite problem most people have... I am installing something that needs administrator access but I need to run a preinstall script that not only doesn't need these rights, it can't have these rights. I need to run a script that does stuff with "launchctl unload" and when that is given root access it defaults to root, even if the explicit path you give it to unload is ~/Library/xxx for example. That's at least what I have gathered after some research. When I run the script from the terminal it works, but when I run "sudo thescript" it doesn't work. sudo -u $realUserName launchctl unlead $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/ com.racepoint.*.plist and in the console I still get the same error message "launchctl: Dubious ownership on file (skipping) /Users/xxx/Library/LaunchAgents" and then the installer fails. Just to test I made a new package that just did some bogus stuff that didn't need administrator access, and I had it run the same prelaunch script and it worked great. Sorry if this is confusing but essentially I need a script to run without super user privileges but the component thats getting installed after the prelaunch script does. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com