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An AppleScript for the remote user
I do the same support for my family; to make it easier on them, I wrote this AppleScript for them to run. Since I may be traveling when they call for help, it prompts the user for an IP address or domain name to connect to before running the ssh command in terminal. It also does some quick sanity checking on the IP address to make sure it's a valid IPv4 address. Just change "ARDHero" at the top to your name, and "ARDHeroAccount" to whatever the account name is on your end that they should log into. Save as an application in Script Editor and you should be set.
set ARDHero to "Steve"
set ARDHeroAccount to "ard_acct"
set isValidIP to false
repeat while isValidIP is false
set remoteIP to text returned of (display dialog "what is " & ARDHero & "'s IP address or Domain Name?" default answer "192.17.210.65")
set savedTextItemDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
try
set isValidIP to true
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."}
set IPList to every text item in remoteIP
set countOfIP to count of IPList
if countOfIP is not equal to 4 then set isValidIP to false
repeat with index from 1 to countOfIP
set currentValue to text item index of IPList as integer
if currentValue > 255 then set isValidIP to false
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to savedTextItemDelimiters
on error -- In case something bogus happens, make sure the delimiter is set back
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to savedTextItemDelimiters
set isValidIP to false
end try
-- Check if they entered a domain name
try
last character of remoteIP as integer
on error --if the last character isn't a number, it's a domain name
set isValidIP to true
end try
if isValidIP is false then
display dialog ("This is not a valid IP address:" & return & remoteIP) buttons "Try Again" default button "Try Again"
else
set x to button returned of (display dialog ("Is this the correct address?" & return & remoteIP) buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button "Yes")
if x is "No" then set isValidIP to false
end if
end repeat
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script ("ssh " & ARDHeroAccount & "@" & remoteIP & " -R 5800:127.0.0.1:5900")
end tell
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