For various security reasons our JAMF installation does not allow installs from outside the network. With our company being all WFH this has it's challenges. I thought I would share a script I use to deploy necessary packages remotely.
If I borrowed from a script already out there I apologize for not noting it inn here. I usually do that and I am sure I did not come up with all of this myself.
#!/bin/bash
# Set the package specifics using JAMF script options
packageDownloadUrl="$4"
packageName="$5"
log() {
echo "$1"
/usr/bin/logger -t "$packageName:" "$1"
}
log "Installing $packageName"
## Get the Username of the currently logged user
loggedInUser=`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'`
tempDir=$(/usr/bin/mktemp -d -t "temp_install")
echo $tempDir
log "Downloading $packageName..."
/usr/bin/curl -s $packageDownloadUrl -o "$tempDir/$packageName"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
log "curl error: The package did not successfully download"; exit 1
fi
log "Installing $packageName..."
/usr/sbin/installer -pkg $tempDir/$packageName -target /
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
log "installer error: The package did not successfully install"; exit 1
fi
# cleanup
log "Removing $packageName..."
rm -rf "$tempDir"
exit 0
