Hi all,
I'm building an app that is updated and launched from a launcher app. The problem that I'm encountering at the moment is that the app cannot download and patch an app that is inside the /Applications folder.
Do I need request special permission for this to work?
Is this even possible to do?
Is it allowed to download and install apps and patches in the /Library/Application Support folder?
Thank you in advance.
Ivan
/Applications% ls -ld /Applications
drwxrwxr-x+ 65 root admin 2080 10 Jan 08:02 /ApplicationsIf you want to install or update apps there, you’ll need to either limit yourself to running as an admin user [1] or implement some sort of privilege escalation.
IMPORTANT Modifying apps is a tricky business:
Never work on the in-place copy of the app. Rather, make a copy, work on that, and then replace the original with your copy.
You have to make sure that your final version is correctly signed and notarised.
/Library/Application Support% ls -ld /Library/Application\ Support
drwxr-xr-x 25 root admin 800 29 Dec 13:21 /Library/Application SupportShare and Enjoy
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let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"[1] I don’t recommend that. A common pattern is for folks to create an admin account and a standard account and then run as the standard user day-to-day. If they need to do admin-y stuff, they simply authenticate using their admin account.