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In the past three blogs you have seen how to change a user preference, how to change the background and how to change a system preference by changing the logon window text. In this blog I want to show you that you are also able to enable remote administration, including VNC access and that you are able to manage or add users to a remote Mac OS X device. This can be handy if you need to manage a lot of Mac devices and if you do not want to configure them by hand. Let’s see how this works, again the Mac community was very helpful in explaining how to for instance create a user via Shell Script.
After trying to manage the com.apple.remotemanagement.plist file located in /library/Preferences I searched for an alternative option to enable remote management and remote control via VNC. An alternative was found in Kickstart, located in a well hidden place /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/ . With this command line utility you are able to configure the remote management preferences. So this is a great tool to misuse (again 😉 ) in for instance the Discovery Script of a Configuration Item.
Enable and Configure Remote Management and VNC Access
When running the command line manually you see that the command report back if remote management has been activated correctly or not, so if we configure the compliance rule check if the reported results contains “Activated”.
Now that we have configured Remote Management we also want to create an administrative user that can be used to remotely control and manage the Mac OS X device. Let’s say we want to create a user called remoteadmin. First we need to first create a discovery script that checks if there is a folder called remoteadmin exists in the /users/ folder. If so the user is already in place and nothing needs to be done, if the user is not in place we need to create the user by remediating it via the remediation script.
In the fourth line of the script we starting Sudo in Super User mode (sudo –su), to be able to run Sudo in this mode we need to supply a password which we temporary parsed to a file called pwd.txt. This can be every accessible folder on the Mac OS X device. With the Directory Service command line utility we are able to create a user with the appropriate permissions and settings. In this example we will use the super-secret password P@ssw0rd. 😉
Create a user with the Directory Services command line utility
If you want to use the script above be sure to change the location in line #2 and the Super User password (P@ssw0rd) in line #3.
Adding both Configuration Items to a Configuration Baseline and deploying it to a collection with Mac devices will result in the fact that a user remoteadmin is created and that Remote Management is enabled. In the Mac OS X device you are able to see if Remote Management and VNC access are configured.
Remote Management is enabled and configured
Now that Remote Management is configured you need to check if the remoteadmin user is created, this can also be done in the preferences.
Mac Os X Requirements
If you want to try this baseline, you can download it here. Be sure to test it first in a lab environment before using it in production.
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Hyena 13 is known throughout the industry as one of the top Windows management utilities. Using the built-in Windows administration tools to manage a medium to large Windows 200x network or Active Directory environment can be a challenge.
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Used today by tens of thousands of system administrators worldwide, Hyena is the one tool that every administrator cannot afford to be without.
Hyena 13 uses an Explorer-style interface for all operations, including right mouse click pop-up context menus for all objects. Management of users, groups (both local and global), shares, domains, computers, services, devices, events, files, printers and print jobs, sessions, open files, disk space, user rights, messaging, exporting, job scheduling, processes, and printing are all supported.
Hyena 13 includes full exporting capabilities and both Microsoft Access and Excel reporting and exporting options. All of these features are part of the Standard Edition of Hyena.
Hyena 13 Features:
- View your entire Windows or Active Directory network from one easy to use Explorer-style interface and make management a snap!
- Audit your system configuration and quickly find security holes that need to plug.
- Quickly generate reports for meetings or to use for further research to determine problem spots.
- Change passwords for local administration accounts on multiple computers at once.
- Find out which services are running and quickly show startup information; make changes to those services on all computers at once!
- Go beyond the limits of Microsoft’s MMC and help you manage Windows 200x and Active Directory quickly and easily.
- Control popular remote control programs, including VNC, with one utility.
Hyena also includes:
- Full exporting capabilities with both Microsoft Access and Excel reporting and exporting options.
- Terminal Server user properties and session administration.
- Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 Server mailbox integration and properties management.
- WMI integration.
What’s New in Hyena 13.5.1:
- Added ‘Protect object from accidental deletion’ on object Property dialogs (Security page).
- Prevented executing a query when nothing is selected.
- The changed caption of ‘Active Editor’ to ‘Active Tools’ (Tools > Settings) and added option to change Active Task default directory.
- Added check for ‘IIS APPPOOL’ in the ‘Show Logged On Users’ function to prevent domain lookup errors.
- Added checks in several functions to prevent adding a group as a member of itself.
- Corrected the display when the DnDisplayFormat setting is ‘1’ and the object is at the root of the directory.
- Rev ‘B’ (August 14, 2019) – Corrected issue with the German version not recognizing ‘NT-AUTORITAT’ as being a builtin security context and not a domain.
- Rev ‘B’ (August 14, 2019) – Corrected right window display for policies where the computer policies were disabled.
- Rev ‘B’ (August 14, 2019) – Fixed problem with ‘domain’ lookup for local users with ‘IIS APPPOOL’ source.
- Rev ‘B’ (August 14, 2019) – Added sorting to the user rights display in the left tree window.
- Rev ‘B’ (August 14, 2019) – Fixed problem where OUs protected from accidental deletion did not display correctly on the Properties dialog.
- Rev ‘B’ (August 14, 2019) – Force registration of SystemTools_PSI.dll on startup (always) for use by non-Microsoft Exchange functions.
- Rev ‘B’ (August 14, 2019) – Used different Windows functions to list global groups and users for non-Active Directory displays due to a bug introduced by Microsoft Windows Server 2016 update.
Supported Operating Systems:
Hyena Administration Tool For Mac Os X
- Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
- Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019
Size: 33.08 MB
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