Article:		An Introduction to Tiger Terminal
Subject:		Can I control system pref's from terminal?
Date:		2005-06-15 07:39:31
From:		mr.nice
I am looking for a form to post this question, please forgive me if this is too off topic. I need to turn on Apple Remote Desktop on a mac with no monitor. I can start up and navigate with the keyboard to terminal and then carefully type commands. I just wonder if it is possible to active ARD this way... anyone? Thanks

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• Can I control system pref's from terminal?
  2005-06-15 17:34:23  norburym [Reply | View]
  
  
  The way to go, I would think, is to create a custom client installer which will prepare the client settings for you. The ARD Admin Guide has detailed steps on how to accomplish this:
  http://images.apple.com/remotedesktop/pdf/ARD_Admin_Guide22.pdf
  There really isn't any reason you "have" to visit the client at all.
  Caveat: I haven't tried this with Tiger so if that's what you're working with, let me know if how it goes.
• Can I control system pref's from terminal?
  2005-06-16 06:28:44  mr.nice [Reply | View]
  
  
  norburyn, As you suggested I can create a custom installer which will create a new user and activate ARD. I have done this. Now the question is how do I run the installer on the G3. I can copy the .mpkg to the desktop of the G3 and can get myself into terminal. What is the exact command to run the package? I spent some time trying to figure it out... so far I have (from memory) sudo installer -pkg </Users/adam/Desktop/Custom.mpkg> (I get stuck here, how do I tell the system the target? What is the target?
• Can I control system pref's from terminal?
  2005-06-16 11:33:38  norburym [Reply | View]
  
  
  sudo installer -pkg </Users/Adam/desktop/Custom.mpkg> -target /