Kick start ARD remote management
Submitted by tlarkin on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 14:21
If for some reason you actually forget to enable ARD client to remotely access and manage your clients I have a script here that will enable it again. This script was used and tested in OS X 10.5.4 and worked. It also assumes you want to give access to a local admin account, which is what this script is designed to do. If you need to enable directory or LDAP users you will need to tweak the script.
You can add a list of user's short names separated by commas in the variable above, or you can alter it to add it for all users.
#!/bin/sh #kick start ARD client on machines if currently disabled #tested in OS X 10.5.4 and works, most likely will also work in 10.4.11 but I have not tested echo "activating ARD agent" /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate echo "configuring ARD cleint" #now put the user you wish to specificy access ardusers="user short name here" /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -users $ardusers -access -on -privs -all echo "done" exit 0
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