Apple does this a lot:

su $ENV{‘USER’} -c “command and arguments and stuff”

(well, Mavs’s Mail gave that smart quotes. Derp.) On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Mitchell J Laurren-Ring <lists@rynosoft.com> wrote:

I've recently added a launchd plist to my installer and need to load it during postflight (which is running as root). For it to work correctly (as a launch agent), I need to execute launchctl as the current user, not root. I tried using "sudo -u $SUDO_USER" but apparently this ENV variable is set to "launchctl" at postflight time.

How do execute something from postflight as "not root", preferably the installing user?

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