Where to find userdefaults.plist file when values written by a root process?

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I have a CLI executable(running in root context).It's sole purpose is to writeUserDefaults and read UserDefaults, and its working fine as it supposed to but I am unable to find the plist file created/modified by this process. I tried running same process in user context and was able to find the plist file created by it in ~/Library/Preference/ServiceCheckOne.plist

UserDefaults.init(suiteName: 'ServiceCheckOne')?.set(100, forKey: 'check1')
let value = UserDefaults.init(suiteName: suiteName)?.integer(forKey: key)!
After using this functions i am getting value = 100

I searched for plist from all the locations mentioned in these answer and the build

Where is a Mac Application's NSUserDefaults Data Stored?

locate command didn't help either.
I checked recently modified files still not able to find file.
In short
Need help locating the ServiceCheckOne.plist file when u userDefaults.set is used by root process.\

Or am I getting value back because of caching of defaults and file actually didn't exist? Thank you Xcode 12.3 MacOs 10.15 Tried defaults read | grep ServiceCheckOne got no hits here too

Have you looked in /var/root/Library/Preferences/ServiceCheckOne.plist? Depending on exactly what you mean by "root context", that's where I'd expect to find it. — Gordon Davisson, May 02 '21 at 21:36
,I checked in /root/Library/Preferences.When i said root context I mean ,I am using this Command line executable as a root Launch Agent. @GordonDavisson — krishna vamsi, May 03 '21 at 04:19
@krishnavamsi any luck in finding user defaults location for root processes? — Desert Rose, Jun 10 '21 at 01:13
@DesertRose I am able to find them sudo defaults read , but still, I couldn't find the suitename.plist file anywhere. — krishna vamsi, Jun 11 '21 at 06:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '23 at 21:35

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/private/var/root/Library/Preferences
/private/var/root/Library/Preferences/ByHost

answered Jun 22 '23 at 21:35

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Where to find userdefaults.plist file when values written by a root process?

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