You should take a look at the asuser and bootstrap commands of launchctl. The
last one will only work on 10.11.
> On 17 Jul 2015, at 17:11, Per Olofsson <per.olofs...@gu.se> wrote:
>
> When an installer package contains a LaunchAgent we typically try to load it
> into any current user sessions, to avoid requiring a logout or restart.
> Through trial and error we've arrived at using launchctl bsexec with chroot
> in a loop like this:
>
> if [[ "$3" == "/" ]]; then
> # Load agent for all logged in users.
> for pid_uid in $(ps -axo pid,uid,args | grep -i "[l]oginwindow.app" | awk
> '{print $1 "," $2}'); do
> pid=$(echo $pid_uid | cut -d, -f1)
> uid=$(echo $pid_uid | cut -d, -f2)
> if [[ "$uid" -ne 0 ]]; then
> launchctl bsexec "$pid" chroot -u "$uid" / launchctl unload
> "$AGENT"
> launchctl bsexec "$pid" chroot -u "$uid" / launchctl load "$AGENT"
> fi
> done
> fi
>
> It's not perfect but it got the job done, but it looks like it breaks in the
> 10.11 betas if SIP is enabled (launchctl exits with code 5). Is there a
> better/proper/supported way of loading LaunchAgents for users in a background
> script running as root?
>
> --
> Per Olofsson, IT-service, University of Gothenburg
>
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