Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Distributing the ERB Secure Browser (Macintosh) Using Munki

Distributing the ERB Secure Browser App for Macintosh using MUNKI.

ERB provides a zipped file but trying to create a package of the file with Packages doesn't work.   This method simulates unzipping the zipped application, and then copying it to the Applications folder.


  • Download ERB Online zip file
  • Package the zip file using Packages (or your packaging software of choice). 
  • After upload to Munki put this in the post install script:



#!/bin/bash
ditto -xk /Users/Shared/ERBSecureBrowser_7.1.1.1.zip /Users/Shared/
cp -R /Users/Shared/ERB\ Secure\ Browser.app /Applications


The other loose end to this situation are application restrictions in your MDM. The old style app restrictions don't seem to work well with the ERB secure browser. Even when you have an exception for apps in the Applications folder or for the ERB Secure Browser app (treating it like a folder) doesn't work.

I found that you have to use the Allowed or Blocked Apps restriction profile.


Update: distributing ERB Secure Browser on Mojave

Mojave introduces some security enhancements that mess up the distribution of the ERB secure browser (the "App").  First, than...