I have developed a Mac App which which runs on system and collects hardware information and give proactive suggestions of hardware issues/upgrade required. This SW has several types of use-cases which can be configured based on customer needs and can use in organisations in order to prepare for future system upgrade/failures of system resources. This is a configurable package which can be used by specific customers/clients, It can't be distributed through app store. Can I use Apple Enterprise program to distribute this software outside of app store. Is there any other way to distribute it. Pls suggest, What are the ways to distribute it outside of mac app store.

I want to install an update of my cocoa application in an unattended manner(silent intallation) where user will not be doing any interaction on the mac installer app. Through terminal it can be achieved using sudo installer -package /Users/username/Downloads/MyPackage.pkg -target /Applications/ But sudo will require password. Can it be done through a shell script? without passwords?

I created a new sample project and enabled hardened runtime. The code signing is successful and app successfully got uploaded to apple notary service as I received a xcode notification regarding notarized app export. I have validated the code signing using below command codesign -vvv --deep --strict '/Users/***/Downloads/NotarizedApp/AppNotaryAndDistrib.app'  which gives following o/p /Users/***/Downloads/NotarizedApp/AppNotaryAndDistrib.app: valid on disk /Users/***/Downloads/NotarizedApp/AppNotaryAndDistrib.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement My requirement is to distribute the appliation software through a package installer, for the same I created a installer package using package tool [http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/about.html]. The codesigning of installer package is also successful productsign --sign "Developer ID Installer: Team Name (Team Identifier)" "AppNotaryAndDistri.pkg" "AppNotaryAndDistri_1.0_Installer.pkg" The O/P of productsign command is mentioned below: productsign: using timestamp authority for signature productsign: signing product with identity "Developer ID Installer: Team Name (Team Identifier)" from keychain /Users/***/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db productsign: adding certificate "Developer ID Certification Authority" productsign: adding certificate "Apple Root CA" productsign: Wrote signed product archive to AppNotaryAndDistri_1.0_Installer.pkg To notarize the signed installer package, i used the following command xcrun altool --notarize-app --primary-bundle-id "application-bundle-id" --username "apple-account-id" --password "app-specific-password" --file AppNotaryAndDistri_1.0_Installer.pkg which returns a request uuid successfully No errors uploading 'AppNotaryAndDistri_1.0_Installer.pkg'. RequestUUID = 7f24e166-b47a-47d8-b09d-21268886351e The notarization info command o/p is below: RequestUUID: 7f24e166-b47a-47d8-b09d-21268886351e     Status: success   Status Code: 0 Status Message: Package Approved Till now everything looks good and no error from apple, also developer_log doesn't give any error. But when i try stapling using xcrun stapler staple 'AppNotaryAndDistri_1.0_Installer.pkg' it gives following error Could not validate ticket for /Users/***/Downloads/MacSigning/AppNotaryAndDistri/AppNotaryAndDistri_1.0_Installer.pkg The staple and validate action failed! Error 65. Tried below command xcrun stapler staple -v 'AppNotaryAndDistri_1.0_Installer.pkg' which says Downloaded ticket has been stored at file:/// path-to-ticket Could not validate ticket for /Users/***/Downloads/MacSigning/AppNotaryAndDistri/AppNotaryAndDistri_1.0_Installer.pkg The staple and validate action failed! Error 65. The problem is without stapling, When user tries to install the software, the system prompts an alert saying ***.pkg can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. I don't want user should see such alerts. I am stuck on it from a week. please let me know what is wrong in the process, did i miss any step? Pls assist...