[MacTUG] Apple Remote Desktop, security of sending unix commands

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

It looks like most if not all of the traffic with Apple Remote Desktop is encrypted:

Apple Remote Desktop 3 uses 128-bit AES encryption to ensure that all remote
communications are secure, even over the Internet, with client computers
running Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later – from https://www.apple.com/euro/remotedesktop/pdf/ARD33_TO.pdf


I am considering a sending a unix script that would include a password to my lab machines. I would not save the script with the password – I would enter it only when I am sending the script – so there would be no viewable record of it on my computer, nor so I think the client computers. The script would run (obviously) invisibly in the background with no chances of screen display on the computer.

It sounds like it would be sent – from my server to the clients on the same subnet – encrypted and so I should not be fretting over this. Am I missing anything?


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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-computing/about/people
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