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

[Jeremy Matthews]

Actually, we have volume licensing on everything possible - even when  
there are only a few licenses....except Final Cut Pro.
All the consumer stuff doesn't seem to be bound by hardware...so far.

So, is it doable using either of those methods for the non-hardware- 
bound apps?

-j

On Aug 14, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote:

> 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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