[CJG86]

I am wondering what I have to setup to make it so that when the computer starts up ssh is listening for a connection. What I mean is I was to be able to login with ssh as a certain user and the mac would login with that user just as if i were in front of the computer and were logging in. Is this possible?

Thanks In Advance

[Partisan01]

Originally posted by CJG86:
I am wondering what I have to setup to make it so that when the computer starts up ssh is listening for a connection. What I mean is I was to be able to login with ssh as a certain user and the mac would login with that user just as if i were in front of the computer and were logging in. Is this possible?

Thanks In Advance

This is better asked in the unix forum, but I'll bite. What you want to do is start the ssh service in the 'sharing' tab in the network preferences, this is done by clicking "remote login" and then it will start up each time you reboot, until you uncheck it.

I'm not a huge Mac guru, more of a unix guru, so here's what I know about your second question. You can share a desktop over a net connecction with Apple Remote Desktop I think, I know nothing about it. The alternative I know about is sharing a X11 connection. What you can do is forward x11 sessions over a ssh tunnel so it's secure. You can then run programs from the remote computer like you were running the commands locally.

If you are really hard core, you can install GNOME or KDE ontop of Darwin and X11 and then share that over a net connection. Beware if you do this it will take up a decent bandwidth amount. Best of luck.

Nate