how can I enable remote login with a shell script?

[yagmot]

I’m building a post-flight script in a package that gets installed via DeployStudio. I’ve figured out how to enable Remote Management in my script, but I’m not finding any good info on how to enable Remote Login (ssh). Any ideas?

Thanks!

[fherbert]

Use systemsetup (man systemsetup for more info)

Usage: systemsetup -getremotelogin
Display whether remote login is on or off.

Usage: systemsetup -setremotelogin
Set remote login to either or . Use “systemsetup -f -setremotelogin off” to suppress prompting when turning remote login off.

[yagmot]

actually that doesn’t work. here’s how to do it.

dseditgroup -o create -a YourUserName -t user -u YourUserName -P YourPassword -q com.apple.access_ssh
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist

[malroy]

Hi Yagmot can i hack your post and ask the same question with a twist

does anyone know how to disable SSH in 10.4,10.5 and 10.6 in shell script ?

Thanks
Roy

[tlarkin]

The systemsetup command can force SSH off. Also there is a disabled ssh group that already exists in directory services

[code]
bash-3.2# dscl . list /Groups | grep ssh
_sshd
com.apple.access_ssh-disabled
[/code]

However, I believe ARD Admin uses SSH for authentication so you may not want to turn it off but rather restrict usage to a particular account.

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