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Chapter 5 Setting General System Preferences 61
To change the current startup disk:
$ sudo systemsetup -setstartupdisk
path
Viewing or Changing the Sharing Settings
You can use the systemsetup tool to view or change Sharing settings. These can also be
set using the Sharing pane of System Preferences.
Viewing or Changing Remote Login Settings
You can use SSH to log in to a remote server if remote login is enabled.
To see if the system is set to allow remote login:
$ sudo systemsetup -getremotelogin
To enable or disable remote login:
$ sudo systemsetup -setremotelogin (on|off)
or
$ serversetup -enableSSH
Telnet access is disabled by default because it isn’t as secure as SSH. You can, however,
enable Telnet access. See “Using Telnet” on page 36.
Viewing or Changing Apple Event Response
To see if the system is set to respond to remote events:
$ sudo systemsetup -getremoteappleevents
To set the server to respond to remote events:
$ sudo systemsetup -setremoteappleevents (on|off)
Viewing or Changing the International Settings
You can use the serversetup tool to view or change language settings. These can also
be set using the International pane of System Preferences.
To view the current primary language:
$ serversetup -getPrimaryLanguage
To view the installed primary language:
$ serversetup -getInstallLanguage
To change the installation language:
$ sudo serversetup -setInstallLanguage
language
To view the script setting:
$ serversetup -getPrimaryScriptCode