How to enable VNC on MacOS via SSH

Introduction

In this tutorial you will learn how to activate the screen transfer (VNC) on MacOS with little effort if you only have SSH access.

Prerequisites

To do the tutorial correctly you need a server/computer with MacOS with the latest version installed.

Then connect to the server via SSH.

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -allowAccessFor -allUsers -privs -all

Starting...
Setting allow all users to YES.
Setting all users privileges to 1073742079.
Done.

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes

Starting...
Set the client options.
Done.

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -clientopts -setvncpw -vncpw supersecret

Note: replace supersecret with your own password.

Starting...
Set the client options.
Done.

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart -agent -console

Starting...
Stopped ARD Agent.
Stopped VNC Privilege Proxy
Stopped RFB Register MDNS
Done.

If no ARD services have been activated on the machine before, it is also necessary to run the following command:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate

Starting...
Activated Remote Management.
Done.

Now you have successfully enabled screen transfer on your MacOS server. You can now connect to the server using any VNC program.