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    jacob
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    Hi,

    We have a smalling network with one Xserve running 10.4.3 and running Software Update Services.

    We then have 16 iBooks running over a wireless network all with non-admin accounts. How can we force the software updates to be installed without using ARD or logging in each laptop as an admin user and installing the updates?

    Thanks,
    -Jacob

    #364349
    fherbert
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    You may be able to use ssh to run the script remotely using the softwareupdate command line tool. I haven’t tried it, but it should work with the software update server settings.
    Something like this should do it:

    softwareupdate -i -a
    

    You could set it up as a cron job (or even using launchd) so it does it on a schedule. That way it could always be run as root.

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