Starting (and Stopping) VNC Viewer Access for Mac OSX From CLI

Gary Kuhlmann - February 11, 2014

To start VNC viewer access you would need to execute:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -clientopts -setvncpw -vncpw mypasswd -restart -agent -privs -all

To stop VNC viewer access you would need to execute:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -deactivate -configure -access -off

Both of these commands can be accessed from the terminal window.

Source: http://www.ernieflores.net/osx-page-4/enabling-remote-desktop-vnc-on-osx-via-terminal-command/