As this solution (launchctl bsexec chroot) finally started working only in 10.10 and was broken almost till final, release version of Yosemete I suggest you to wait for the final release and file a bug report to apple. Hopefully they will fix it ASAP. ——————————————————— Hofi – Istvan Hoffmann On 7/17/15, 17:11 , "Per Olofsson" <launchd-dev-bounces@lists.macosforge.org on behalf of per.olofsson@gu.se> wrote:

When an installer package contains a LaunchAgent we typically try to load it into any current user sessions, to avoid requiring a logout or restart. Through trial and error we've arrived at using launchctl bsexec with chroot in a loop like this:

if [[ "$3" == "/" ]]; then # Load agent for all logged in users. for pid_uid in $(ps -axo pid,uid,args | grep -i "[l]oginwindow.app" | awk '{print $1 "," $2}'); do pid=$(echo $pid_uid | cut -d, -f1) uid=$(echo $pid_uid | cut -d, -f2) if [[ "$uid" -ne 0 ]]; then launchctl bsexec "$pid" chroot -u "$uid" / launchctl unload "$AGENT" launchctl bsexec "$pid" chroot -u "$uid" / launchctl load "$AGENT" fi done fi

It's not perfect but it got the job done, but it looks like it breaks in the 10.11 betas if SIP is enabled (launchctl exits with code 5). Is there a better/proper/supported way of loading LaunchAgents for users in a background script running as root?

-- Per Olofsson, IT-service, University of Gothenburg

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