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For OS X 10.10.x and later - Launching Safari with the logged-in user's account name 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");'`
/bin/launchctl asuser "$logged_in_user" /usr/bin/open "/Applications/Safari.app"
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