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For OS X 10.9.x and earlier - Script to launch Safari as the logged-in user from a script run with root privileges
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#!/bin/bash
# Identify the username of the logged-in user
logged_in_user=`python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or [None])[0]; username = [username,""][username in [u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + "\n");'`
# Identify the loginwindow PID of the logged-in user
logged_in_user_loginwindow_pid=$(ps auxww | grep "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow" | grep "$logged_in_user" | grep -v "grep" | awk '{print $2}')
/bin/launchctl bsexec "$logged_in_user_loginwindow_pid" /usr/bin/open "/Applications/Safari.app"
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