[Casper] User-based shell scripts after self-service installation

[Ernst, Craig S.]

The problem you might run into here is that the serialization that's created on one machine won't work on a another as it is bound to the hardware it was originally installed on. This is the case with many Apple software products. To get around this you typically need to purchase Volume licensing, which is 5 or more. And realisitically we do that to get the media that allows for a non-hardware bound install that can be packaged and deployed to multiple machines. I know that this is what we do for Final Cut Studio as well as Final Cut Express. I imagine that iWork is the same.

Perhaps this will answer your question.

Craig E


On 8/14/08 12:09 PM, "Jeremy Matthews" <jeremymatthews at mac.com> wrote:

Lets say you have a self-service item, iWork for example.
After iWork is installed by the user, you want to serialize iWork by
way of either:

1) writing user defaults to that users' preference file (assume you
would choose to add a script in casper and run after the package is
installed)
2) Deposit a file into the users' /Library/Preferences/ directory

I can't attempt yet (our Casper is offline) - but need to continue
working to deploy these once it is online. Does either method work?
They sure don't work in packagemaker as postinstall scripts....since
installer runs as root it can't understand the concept of "~" outside
of the root user itself.

Thanks,
jeremy
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