programmatically login to OS X

I am trying to create a program which will receive user credentials from a remote machine (where the user will be working), and forward these credentials to the login window of OS X. I know it can be done using AppleScript, but this is not always working as expected. In particu开发者_JAVA百科lar it is not working when the Mac is booted and no user has logged in yet. Is there another way to do this ?

Cheers

Alan J. Caruana

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You'll need to write an authorization plugin. You can think of your task as something like using a smartcard reader to log in.

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Can you use the existing Apple Remote Desktop solution? This allows users to login directly to OS X from any machine that has a VNC client. And if you don't need a GUI connection, there's always ssh.