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Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Deployment v10.5

Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Deployment v10.5

by Kevin M. White

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Log into a mac using ARD’s “send unix command.”

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

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Tags: 10.5, Apple, Apple Remote Desktop, ARD, command line, leopard, login

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