[Kyek]

Hey Jamie Welcome to wdR!

I'm not certain I'm following you correctly, so let me explain how I'm envisioning your setup, and you can let me know if I'm very painfully wrong:

• You're running Lion Server. Lion Server controls the accounts for all the other mac machines on the network.
  
• The other machines on the network are independent macs. If a user sits down and logs in, they're logging in via the credentials set up on Lion Server.
  
• You need to be able to Remote Desktop into Lion Server, and drop a command into Apple Remote Desktop's command line tool which will cause all the networked macs to log in as a certain user, as though a real human being just sat in front of each of them and typed a username and password.

Or do you mean that you simply need to be able to SSH to each individual machine?

[jcahn93]

Kyek, on 22 June 2012 - 10:01 AM, said:

Hey Jamie Welcome to wdR!

I'm not certain I'm following you correctly, so let me explain how I'm envisioning your setup, and you can let me know if I'm very painfully wrong:

• You're running Lion Server. Lion Server controls the accounts for all the other mac machines on the network.
  
• The other machines on the network are independent macs. If a user sits down and logs in, they're logging in via the credentials set up on Lion Server.
  
• You need to be able to Remote Desktop into Lion Server, and drop a command into Apple Remote Desktop's command line tool which will cause all the networked macs to log in as a certain user, as though a real human being just sat in front of each of them and typed a username and password.

Or do you mean that you simply need to be able to SSH to each individual machine?

basically what you said is what I'm trying to do. Plain sand simple is that I need to update all the computers on the network in the room but to do that I need to be logged into the "admin account" but its just a pain to log into 34 computers one by one, i would love to have like one line i throw into the command line that will log all the computers in at once. Remote desktop will allow me to update the computers all at the same time from one command once logged in, but typing the same username and password to 34 computers is unproductive.

im also now wondering if this is even possible?

[Ruku]

http://lifehacker.co...he-command-line

It's possible

[jcahn93]

thanks ruku ill try this one

okay that command will work, only problem is i still need a way to log into all machines at once.

[NeilHanlon]

I don't understand why it is you need to log into the machines. Can't you just deploy that script onto each of the machines?

Better yet, create a login script that polls for if an update is necessary, and runs the command once any user logs in.

[jcahn93]

well these computers are in a computer lab on a work network, the standard user does not have rights to update software and they will not, so that runs out the user log in, and using apples programs (which this one I'm not too much of a fan on) you need to log into every computer for the unix command line to open. The command line will only work for the computers that are logged on and that the program is monitoring.

[NeilHanlon]

Additionally, I found this on google. I'm sure you could set it up to work with your setup:

#!bin/sh
cat >/tmp/Login_Automatically.sh <<-"EOF"
if [[ "$(who | grep console)" == "" ]]; then # Runs ONLY if no one is logged in
osascript <<EOT
set username_ to "username"
set password_ to "password"
tell application "System Events"
key code 125 -- Down Arrow
key code 125 -- Down Arrow
delay 1
key code 125 -- Down Arrow
key code 125 -- Down Arrow
key code 125 -- Down Arrow
key code 125 -- Down Arrow
key code 125 -- Down Arrow
key code 125 -- Down Arrow
delay 0.5
key code 36 -- Return
delay 1
tell process "SecurityAgent" to set value of text field 1 of group 1 of window 1 to username_
tell process "SecurityAgent" to set value of text field 2 of group 1 of window 1 to password_
click button "Log In" of window 1 of application process "SecurityAgent"
end tell
EOT
fi
EOF
chmod 755 /tmp/Login_Automatically.sh
./tmp/Login_Automatically.sh
rm -f /tmp/Login_Automatically.sh

[gibbonweb]

NeilHanlon, on 25 June 2012 - 08:11 AM, said:

Better yet, create a login script that polls for if an update is necessary, and runs the command once any user logs in.

No. You don't want to run updates exactly when the computer is needed. There's plenty of time to run them without bothering the users.

[jcahn93]

i just fixed my problem! thanks all

http://hints.macworl...010021119293586

used that and i wrote "keystrokes" because they will log into the computer and use the unix command line!


Thank you all for your help!

[NeilHanlon]

jcahn93, on 25 June 2012 - 08:58 AM, said:

i just fixed my problem! thanks all

http://hints.macworl...010021119293586

used that and i wrote "keystrokes" because they will log into the computer and use the unix command line!


Thank you all for your help!

You mean, exactly what I posted here?

http://webdevrefiner...post__p__123877

[jcahn93]

no not exactly. i used this script very basic and it worked.

osascript <<EndOfMyScript
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "username"
delay 5.0
keystroke return
delay 5.0
keystroke "password"
keystroke return
delay 5.0
keystroke return
end tell
EndOfMyScript