A while back I was asked by a colleague if I could automate starting a number of SSH connections based on the current selection in ARD. This may seem pointless given that you can run UNIX commands in ARD but it is not. With SSH you get an interactive shell; quite different from just being able to send commands and receive a sample of the response! MORE »
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OpenSSH is included in OS X and allows admins full access to all levels of a machine’s OS. However, you have to type in a password for every connection, which can be tiresome when you need to connect to 20 client machines!
Thankfully, we can avoid all this typing through a private/public key system. There is an article on creating the necessary keys on the OpenSSH website, which is easy to follow. I’m going to run through and OS X centric implementation here. MORE »
Apple Remote Desktop is an invaluable tool in the Mac sysadmin world providing functionality above and beyond the likes of VNC. There are however, a few things that we can’t do. For a lot of really geeky work we need an interactive shell via SSH. The problem is ARD only provides a simple Send UNIX command utility that pales in comparison to a fully functional SSH connection.
I made an applescript for a colleague of mine who wanted to be able to SSH a selection of machines in ARD. It’s not too smart as it doesn’t pull usernames or passwords from anywhere but it does speed up opening a connection to a target machine. MORE »
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