[Casper] resource kit, enabling ARD users

Miles Leacy miles.leacy at themacadmin.com
Fri Dec 12 08:33:54 PST 2008


From sudo
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart
-h

- Give admin and bob all access.
  kickstart -configure -access -on -privs -all -users admin,bob

So, it looks like comma separated shortnames after the -users switch is what
you need.

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2008/12/12 Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org>

>  So, I have the task of creating a specific user account just for ARD
> access, and I was writing my own script for it.  Then I take a peek in the
> Jamf Resource Kit and they have a script as well, which is pretty much the
> same thing as my script but with minor differences.  My script was not as
> chatty, no echos.
>
>  I already have a kick start script which enables ARD for admin users only
> and it works great and we deploy it via Casper Policy, now I want to change
> that to a list of specified users (which there is a command for in the kick
> start binary) to the two local admin accounts and the one non admin account
> we set up just for ARD viewing.  The script in the resource kit allows for
> one specified user and when I try to add a list of users, I get all kinds of
> syntax errors.
>
>  has anyone added a specific list of users?  I have created a hidden
> account which is non admin but I want it to have ARD rights in the remote
> management pane of system preferences.
>
>  Thoughts?
>
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