Tip: Activate Remote Apple Events through SSH

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

The checkbox for “Remote Apple Events” under the Services tab in the Sharing System Preferences pane changes the RemoteAppleEventsEnabled value between true and false in the file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AEServer.plist.

This allows you to turn Remote Apple Events on and off from the command line by SSH’ing as a user on the remote OS X machine.

Question:
Currently I’m using Pico to change the value. Is their a way to change the value directly (like the defaults command)?

#2

These appear to work:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AEServer RemoteAppleEventsEnabled Yes
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AEServer RemoteAppleEventsEnabled No

You can grab the current setting with:

defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AEServer RemoteAppleEventsEnabled

– Rob

#3

Are you sure that simply rewriting the preferences, remote apple events gets activated immediatelly?