How to remotely install?

[vaxman]

How can this be installed on a machine to which you only have SSH access to (no keyboard/mouse, like when traveling or dealing with machine installed in very difficult to reach spot, like a kiosk, etc..)?  It looks like you can download it and then issue an "# open .../download/teleport pr4/teleport.prefPane" but a dialog will appear (install local or all users) followed by the 'please enter your password' dialog (if you select all users).  Can you document the steps to hack it into the system and get it up and running?

[vaxman]

Would be great if Abyssoft could supply an AppleScript or BASH script to do the install, configure the correct ports for Teleport and Bonjour on the firewall and set the software to "accept (only) first connection request automatically".  Also, teleport needs to be able to work when user is logged out (such as after power failure), so please launch at power-on time time as user "root" instead of currently logged-in user, so it is not disconnected when user logs off).

This should probably be in the Feature Request section, but it is reply to my earlier question about remote install on a machine with only ssh/network (not keyboard/mouse) access.

[vaxman]

..also, the AppleScript needs to turn on the Universal Accessibility option!

And to make this even more useful..to apply to situation where remote SSH is not already enabled to Mac, could you make a bootable ISO/DMG that can be downloaded and burned onto a DVD, automatically do the installation, eject and then reboot?   You can download Darwin (bootable system) for free.  Sounds like a great deal of work, but there are many freeware projects which contain such a feature (typically so you can backup your boot drive) and you could potentially harvest one pre-made and add your script to its startup operation.  In this way, one could walk up to a Mac, insert DVD and reboot then open laptop and begin to control it without any physical keyboard/mouse interaction on the target Mac.

The trouble with these requests tho is that they are much more mundane (IT) type tasks compared to excitement of coding system teleport itself.  But I think this chore is worthwhile as it can greatly improve the business value of the product.

[Ezra]

A remote install over the Internet won't work, but you can certainly remote install from that MacBook Pro if you're on the same subnet as they are (basically, this means in the same building as them).