Installation manual

Chapter 3 Installing Apple Remote Desktop 47
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 instructions, see “Creating a Custom Client Installer” on page 47.
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 apply to all the
computers that receive the installation.
While creating a custom installer, you can create new Apple Remote Desktop
administrator user names with passwords, and automatically set Apple Remote
Desktop access privileges and preferences.