Apple M9547Z/A Administration Guide - Page 46
Upgrading Apple Remote Desktop Clients Using SSH, Creating a Custom Client Installer
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 Add the custom installer package to a NetInstall image, using System Image Utility to automatically include the software and your custom settings when clients install the operating system using Mac OS X Server's NetBoot and NetInstall features. WARNING: Custom install packages that create user names contain sensitive password data. Take care to store such custom installers securely. Upgrading Apple Remote Desktop Clients Using SSH You may not be able to or want to use Remote Desktop to upgrade existing clients to Apple Remote Desktop 3. If the clients have SSH enabled (called Remote Login in System Preferences), and are available on the network, you can still upgrade the client computers. You still need to use Remote Desktop to create a custom installer package. You also need the user name and password of a user with system administrator privileges on the client computer. To upgrade existing client software using SSH: 1 Create the custom client installer package. For detailed instructions, see "Creating a Custom Client Installer" on page 46. 2 Open the Terminal application (located in /Applications/Utilities/). 3 Copy the installer package to the client computer by typing: $ scp -r @: For other options, see the scp man page. 4 Log in to the client computer by typing: $ ssh @ For other options, see the ssh man page. 5 On the client computer, install the package by typing: $ sudo installer -pkg -target / For other options, see installer man page. Creating a Custom Client Installer To install the Apple Remote Desktop client software on computers, you use the administrator application, Remote Desktop, to create a custom client installer. The custom client installer not only installs the Apple Remote Desktop system software, but can create user names and passwords on the client computer with their Apple Remote Desktop privileges already assigned. You'll use an assistant to create a custom client installer package. Any values set in the custom installer will apply to all the computers that receive the installation. 46 Chapter 3 Installing Apple Remote Desktop