With the Directory Service command line utility we are able to create a user with the appropriate permissions and settings. This can be every accessible folder on the Mac OS X device. In the fourth line of the script we starting Sudo in Super User mode (sudo –su), to be able to run Sudo in this mode we need to supply a password which we temporary parsed to a file called pwd.txt. If so the user is already in place and nothing needs to be done, if the user is not in place we need to create the user by remediating it via the remediation script. First we need to first create a discovery script that checks if there is a folder called remoteadmin exists in the /users/ folder.

Let’s say we want to create a user called remoteadmin. Now that we have configured Remote Management we also want to create an administrative user that can be used to remotely control and manage the Mac OS X device. When running the command line manually you see that the command report back if remote management has been activated correctly or not, so if we configure the compliance rule check if the reported results contains “Activated”.

Enable and Configure Remote Management and VNC Access So this is a great tool to misuse (again 😉 ) in for instance the Discovery Script of a Configuration Item. With this command line utility you are able to configure the remote management preferences. An alternative was found in Kickstart, located in a well hidden place /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/. Let’s see how this works, again the Mac community was very helpful in explaining how to for instance create a user via Shell Script.Īfter trying to manage the file located in /library/Preferences I searched for an alternative option to enable remote management and remote control via VNC. This can be handy if you need to manage a lot of Mac devices and if you do not want to configure them by hand. In this blog I want to show you that you are also able to enable remote administration, including VNC access and that you are able to manage or add users to a remote Mac OS X device. In the past three blogs you have seen how to change a user preference, how to change the background and how to change a system preference by changing the logon window text.

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