

Reviewing the kickstart help will give you the syntax to write your own script to accomplish different Remote Management configurations. The script below will accomplish these items. I have most commonly enabled the Remote Management service, granted all privileges to a single local admin user used by IT staff, and restarted the agent and menu extra to allow the agent to read the new configuration. System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart help Entering the following command in Terminal will display the full listing of options and examples available with this tool. This script uses the kickstart command which is buried within the ARDAgent application.

If you want to enable Remote Management for Apple Remote Desktop access, this script will get you there.

Here’s another script for zero-touch deployment.
