Installing Munki in the ~/Applications folder

[Antony Nelson]

Whilst contemplating a possible future senario I hit on a hypothetical Munki use case.

Would it be possibel to install Munki in a users ~/Applications folder and have it run with the users credentials and install applications into the users ~/Applications folder? 

(Rather then the standard way of running with admin credetials and installing into the computers /Applications folder)

[Alan]

What's the question behind the question?

Why do you want to do this? Can you explain the context a bit more?

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[Gregory Neagle]

Not currently, and unlikely to happen in the future.

Munki is a tool for systems administrators to assist in managing Macs in their organization.

I’m having a hard time understanding a scenario where what you suggest would be useful, really.

-Greg

[Antony Nelson]

The possible future senario is due to panic about Apple dropping support for Binding MacOS to a Windows Domains, my department implement 'Managed Desktops' with a limited number of applications approved for use on desktop computers across the whole organisation.

Then the way to install the essential tools for the scientists I support would then be to install them under the user ~/Applications folder (Some java applications like imageJ actually require this, it's not great for security but some computers are still used by their user to compute things) or by installing commandline applications into a user ~/bin folder.

It's a very specific problem and it doesn't surprise me that it hasn't been considered I just thought I would check that it hasn't already been done due to another set of requirments I had never thought of.

[Gregory Neagle]

I’m not really understanding the link between Apple "dropping support for Binding MacOS to a Windows Domains” and installing software in ~/Applications vs /Applications. (and I’ll point out that not all software is a self-contained app bundle that can just be dropped in ~/Applications — some software can only be installed “globally”)

-Greg

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