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On Monday, January 18, 2016 08:35:20 PM Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:57 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes: |
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> >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:26 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> >>> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes: |
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> >>>> However, while an RDP-like solution protects you from some types of |
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> >>>> attacks, it still leaves you open to many client-side problems like |
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> >>>> keylogging. I don't know any major corporation that lets people RDP |
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> >>>> into their applications in general. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> What do they use instead? |
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> >> |
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> >> As I mentioned in my previous email - they just hand all their |
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> >> employees laptops. Control the hardware, control the software, |
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> >> control the security... |
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> > I mean instead of rdp. It's a simple solution which works really well |
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> > on a LAN with Windoze. What's the equivalent that works with Linux? |
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> Well, I've never been in a company that runs Linux on the desktop, or |
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> which even provides VDIs for Windows. The most common solution is to |
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> provide windows laptops to users with various software packages for |
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> management/security/etc. |
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VDIs are gaining ground in bigger companies as part of the BYOD push. |
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Especially using Citrix XenDesktop with the icaclient, this works really well. |
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> The closest thing to RDP for Linux that I'm aware of us various |
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> NX-based implementations, like x2go, which I've mentioned a few times. |
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> It can be somewhat finicky. And of course there is VNC, which is much |
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> less efficient. I don't think either really gets to the level of RDP |
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> in general. |
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> I do sometimes wonder how the #1 server OS in the world somehow lacks |
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> decent facilities for graphical remote login, and for sharing files |
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> across the network. (For the latter NFS is a real pain to set up in a |
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> remotely secure fashion - part of the problem is that it is hard to |
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> use some kind of a UUID to drive file permissions, and kerberos/etc is |
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> a pain to set up. There is certainly nothing approaching the ease of |
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> just setting a password on a share or connecting to a windows domain |
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> (even a samba-driven one)). |
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I'd love to get something similar to RDP working on linux. |
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But I'm not sufficiently skilled to implement it all myself. |
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