site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev@lists.apple.com Ok, so I just tried a combination of both answers but still to no avail. su $actualUserName -c launchctl unload ..... Thanks for all the help so far! On Jul 31, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Scott Russell wrote: Hello Cameron, Best wishes, Scott -- Dr. Scott Russell IT Support Engineer/Consultant Arts & Letters Computing, Distributed Support Services, Office of Information Technologies, University of Notre Dame Instructor of Horn, University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College Assistant Horn, South Bend Symphony Orchestra 234 Decio Hall 574-631-7021 ScottRussell@nd.edu http://www.nd.edu/~srussel2/ On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Cameron Pulsford wrote: I tried modifying my script like this... realUserName=`echo $USER` _______________________________________________ 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... I tried `who | grep console | awk {'print$1'}` and I tried `users | grep -v root` (I know only one user will be logged in besides root so this is safe) and then I also fixed the launchctl line to read Alright, so really I want this script to execute before anything else, are there any other ways to do it? I'm looking at the Preinstall Actions which are sort of promising. The only thing that kind of works though is "Open File" which does successfully open the file, but it actually literally opens it. Terminal pops up and runs the script, which isn't exactly the best user experience. Also, since it's just opening the file, it opens it and then immediately starts installing, instead of waiting for the script to be done. There is also a close action, but since the previous command is just open, instead of run, the moment terminal opens, it gets closed before the script can even start. So the only option is to close terminal after the installer is finished. Is there anyway I can add a dummy thing to install that doesn't actually put anything anywhere and just runs the preflight script? when you do "$USER" in a postflight script that has root privs, you'll get "root" back as the $USER. You can get around this in various ways. Pperhaps `who | grep console | awk {'print $1'}` would work for you? I'd like to see a more elegant solution myself if anyone has a better one to offer. 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/scottrussell%40nd.edu This email sent to scottrussell@nd.edu This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com