Command line control of AppleVNC or ARD?

I have a headless G3 running that is running the AppleVNC server and I want to shut it off via ssh. I've misplaced the password and I want to use OSXvnc instead. The problem is it seems that AppleVNC is supervised somehow, so whenever I try to kill it it just starts back up again as a new process; a great feature when you want it, but a pain when you don't.I also have a firewall up so I can't start OSXvnc on port 5901 because that port is blocked (I should learn how to unblock this firewall port on the commandline, but I don't yet and it's a bit off-topic...).
Can someone tell me if there are command-line controls to 1) take down the AppleVNC server or 2) change the password? (subquestion, anyone know a good link to learn about OSX firewalls and the command-line?) I read the documentation and I found networksetup and systemsetup but it appears that these are only for Mac OSX Server and I am just running 10.4 End User.
Nate Murray http://www.natemurray.com

If you want to learn about the command line, basically you will be learning UNIX. Apple's version is called Darwin, which is their flavor of FreeBSD.
Here's Apple's site:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/index.html
As far as killing the AppleVNC server, you could find the process in
Utilities>Activity Monitor and kill it there. If it comes back up, then I think
AM allows you to see parent processes. If it is starting up after a kill, that means something else is watching it and restarting it, then also kill that parent process (watcher process)
Or, from the command line you could use ps to find the name of the
process and I think execute kill -9 <process id number>

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