Run app installer from self service as the user

Did you create the installer or is it an installer from a Developer?
What is it trying to do?

If you install the files to a temporary location you could run a post install script or something similar that get's the current user from the Jamf binary as it will be $3 or could do a check like this:

currentUser=$3
if [[ $3 == "" ]]; then currentUser=stat -f%Su /dev/console
fi

so that way you have a full back option for discovering the username and then use dscl to find their home directory location:

currentUserHome=dscl /Search read /Users/$currentUser NFSHomeDirectory | cut -d' ' -f 2 | head -n 1

Like I said it all depends on the type of installer and what you're doing but maybe these will give you some ideas.

Rob

Thanks r0blee, it is a pkg file from an outside developer. It installs an agent on the machine and it requires the user run it as themselves. I know I could do the tricks you mentioned, but is there really no easier/cleaner way?

Probably not as that’s the thing when you use the original developers installer is you have no control over whatever script they are using in their pkg.

Rob