Best way to use sf.system.exec to shut down a remote mac

I'd generally advise against storing passwords in cleartext anywhere - be it in a script on your computer or (even worse, probably) in a SF script.

Instead, to have ssh access to your remote computer, you should set that up with ssh keys. This way you never have to type in the password, because you're granting your local computer access to the remote permanently (or until you remove the key entry).
I usually just google how to do this since I can't remember the steps, but it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to set up.

You would then use the ssh command to run the command directly - for example:

ssh user@remotecomputer 'shutdown -h now'

Here you should set up so that you log in directly as a super user probably, to not have to do the whole sudo thing on the remote. Probably.

Note that you could also just be running SF on each machine and remote into them that way :)

Hey Andrew.

I just put a package in Beta (made it a while ago) that utilize the remote shutdown on a server.
Maybe you wanna try it out. It would be great to see if it works outside my studio.

From my experience you also had to have a "Remote Host Identification" key on your computer in order to be able to use ssh shutdown. I tried to build that authentication in to the script.

Package also has wake on lan.

Guess it goes without saying it only works with mac servers.
I've started to try and find ways to do stuff with Windows now, as I changed my servers to be windows.

what would be the code to shutdown the mac you're on? no remote.