Use ARD Admin to ssh to multiple hosts

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Use ARD Admin to ssh to multiple hosts

In ARD Admin, I am being denied access to mutliple machines.

I'd like to ssh into them so I can activate remote management.

I know how to do this in Terminal (ssh username@hostmachine), but only know how to connect to one host at a time, and that's not efficient.

I'm hoping to send this to multiple machines and would like to use the ARD Send UNIX Command... function, but can't find a way to do that.

Can someone help?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Feb 5, 2016 7:12 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 5, 2016 9:16 AM in response to kobayashi maru

Unfortunately, you need Remote Management enabled in order to use "Send UNIX Command" in ARD. The one-shot ssh command I use is: ssh -t username@hostmachine 'sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/k ickstart -activate -configure -access -on -restart -agent -privs -all -allowAccessFor -allUsers'

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Answer 2

Feb 5, 2016 9:36 PM in response to remotedesktop

Thanks for responding, but I know how to ssh into a single machine to enable Remote Management.

The question is how to ssh into multiple machines to do that.

That's the first thing I need to do before sending the other UNIX commands.

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Answer 3

Feb 7, 2016 11:40 AM in response to kobayashi maru

If ARD isn't letting a login via Send Unix, then here's an older list of tools that can send commands to multiple hosts — I've not looked around for OS X ports. Maybe Radmind?

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