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silverwind fa8c890d01 Document running the macOS runner in the login session (#644)
Rewrites the `launchd (macOS)` section of the runner's binary installation page, in the develop and version 5 docs.

The old steps started the runner at boot as a service user, with directories that do not exist on macOS and a `PATH` that missed Homebrew on Apple silicon. Jobs started that way have no login keychain and no GUI.

The section now describes one setup: the runner runs in the login session of an existing user, with automatic login. It also covers the two problems that setup runs into: macOS blocks the runner from hosts on the Mac's own subnet, and Git's keychain helper can stop a job at a dialog.

The runner repository gets the same content as an example in https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1408.

Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/docs/pulls/644
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
2026-11-11 10:34:40 +00:00
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