Month: November 2012
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MAC OSX: Create a new user on the command line.
One common task that any system administrator will perform is to add a new user to a system or application. I recently had a need to add a new user to a MAC server over an SSH connection and found it much more difficult than it should have been. I ended up writing a script […]
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Enable Remote Desktop Sharing on MAC OSX 10.7 From the CLI
I recently had an issue with a customer where I needed to enable remote screen sharing (VNC) on a MAC OSX server from an SSH terminal. Thanks to this post, I was able to get it started up with this command. sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -restart -agent -privs -all To connect from a […]