October 21st, 2008 by 
Michael in Greensboro, NC 
I stumbled across this useful little tidbit of knowledge. Have you ever needed to log into several machines in a lab but hated going to each one and typing in your credentials. Well thanks to “David Kahn3″ and others for coming up with the following script, osascript <<EOF tell application “System Events” keystroke tab keystroke (ASCII character 8 ) keystroke tab keystroke (ASCII character 8 ) keystroke return delay 0.5 keystroke tab keystroke “username” keystroke tab delay 0.5 keystroke “password” delay 0.5 keystroke return keystroke return keystroke return keystroke return end tell EOF I was able to push this script out using Apple Remote Desktop (run as root not admin) to my macs while they were at the login screen window. Just a few changes for the account username/password fields and bam the computers logged in without me having to even touch them.Beautiful Original Post from Apple Support
