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?
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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