Runlevel Configuration in g-s-t

Denis Jacquerye moyogo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 10:47:17 UTC 2004


> I think that sshd will be necessary on _most_ machines I install. I'm
> likely to be the one who does maintenance on them, and to do that
> maintenance I need to connect to machines remotely. That means
> openssh-server.

Computer > Desktop Preferences > Remote Desktop Preferences
mark two checkboxes.

I believe vnc is installed by default, so remote access is available
by default, no enabled but installed. It's not direct command line,
but should be useful for remote administrative tasks.

> Quite recently, my boss was on the other side of the world wanting
> something done to his Mac. It was unbelievably difficult to explain to
> him how to do something that would have taken me a minute or two and a
> commandline.




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