Remote Shutdown Help

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#21

No, the tag name is a 5 digit number, eg 00001,00002,00003

Would the fact i have Remote login fireware active have anything to do with it? altho i can get do it manualy in terminal…

#22

How would i check or set this?

#23

::awakes from slumber::

Well I’m not sure why you would be getting odd values from your text file… It is plain text right? Can you show us an example?
As for “Remote login fireware” I’m not sure what that is your referring to… unless I’m having a brain cramp which is possible.

As for SSH Keys

  1. On your client machine generate your key pair
ssh-keygen -t rsa

2)Press [Return] twice to accept defaults.

  1. Create remote .ssh directory on client machine(s)
 ssh <client name> "mkdir .ssh; chmod 0700 .ssh"
  1. Copy key to remote .ssh directory
scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub <client name>:.ssh/authorized_keys2

From there you should be able to ssh into the client machine without needing a password.

#24

My mistake, it was Firewall, not fireware :confused:

Ill try setting the SSH Keys tomorrow.

Cheers

#25

Hi again guys, i know this is a old and somewhat dead topic but ive tried all of the above and still no luck.

Is there a way to send a magic packet of some sort to a group of mac’s to make them start up and shutdown?

I have tried using the schedule option in energy saver in system prefs but that only shuts down if a user is logged in.

What im after is a way to send out a blanket shutdown command to all macs.

Any ideas or help?

cheers again