Determine username of installing user (not root) in post install script?

KosalaHerath / macos-installer-builder

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Determine username of installing user (not root) in post install script? #34

Closed whydna closed 5 months ago

whydna commented 9 months ago

Great library, thank you for making this.

Question - In the post install script, I want to know the user who initiated the installer. Because the post install script is initiated by root, whoami returns root.

KosalaHerath commented 5 months ago

When running a script with root privileges on macOS, you can determine the original user by checking the $SUDO_USER environment variable. This variable holds the username of the user who invoked the script with sudo.

Refer: https://www.sudo.ws/docs/man/1.8.10/sudo.man/#x454e5649524f4e4d454e54