Apple Remote Desktop - Manual (Page 46)

46 Chapter 3 Installing Apple Remote Desktop
 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.
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 <path to installer package> <user>@<host>:<path to package
destination>
For other options, see the scp man page.
4 Log in to the client computer by typing:
$ ssh <user>@<host>
For other options, see the
ssh
man page.
5 On the client computer, install the package by typing:
$ sudo installer -pkg <path to package> -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.
WARNING: Custom install packages that create user names contain sensitive
password data. Take care to store such custom installers securely.