Using SSH with your Mac to unlock your home.
It took a while for me to quit laughing today. My wife says this resembles me. In the spirit of our SSH series check out the below xkcd.com comic.
Now all you have to do is SSH into your mac at home. At the terminal command line enter the following.
sudo osascript -e “set Volume 10″
say “Hey! I’m locked out downstairs.”
If you get an error you might try this instead.
sudo say “Hey! I’m locked out downstairs”
If nothing else works maybe just try open sesame. *chuckle*
*Update*
I actually tested this with Victor’s mac pro. Since I had gotten an error I thought it didn’t work. Until I saw Victor’s tweet about freaking out when his macpro spoke to him. See below. As emergency backup and to exchange files I have my own ssh keys to Victor’s macpro. Egg on my face for not thinking it worked and went on to test with my laptop then write the post THEN notice he was wigging out. *but it was darn funny* I just hope he doesn’t hold onto the Apple baseball cap he got me for being bad.







