Having fun with SSH, say and osascript!

Playing nerdy tricks on people always fun, especially if they are on a mac and you have SSH access to their machine

Below are some cool commands you can execute via ssh to amuse or frustrate an unsuspecting mac user!

Absolutely nasty:

sudo kill [program id learned from top] 

Note: using ‘sudo open’ over ssh does not give the user super-user privileges for the opened application.

sudo halt

sudo reboot

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "[name of an open program]" to quit'

Power:

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to sleep'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to shut down'

General:

sudo open /Applications/iChat.app

sudo osascript -e "set volume 0"

sudo osascript -e "beep"

sudo osascript -e 'display dialog "Did you know that you are annoying?" buttons "Yes" with icon note'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to quit'

sudo open [path to an application]

Speech:

sudo osascript -e 'say "[whatever]" using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'say "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo" using "Cellos"'

iTunes Control:

sudo open /Applications/iTunes.app; sudo osascript -e 'say "Play some music. Go on. I dare you." using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "iTunes" to stop' -e 'say "Please stop playing your annoying music" using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "iTunes" to next track' -e 'say "I did not like that song very much" using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "iTunes" to fast forward' -e 'say "This song is boring" using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "iTunes" to quit'

 

Thanks to momerath for typing these up so that I didn’t have to! Sourced from Here!