Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:57 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:26 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
>>> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:
>>>
>>>> However, while an RDP-like solution protects you from some types of
>>>> attacks, it still leaves you open to many client-side problems like
>>>> keylogging.  I don't know any major corporation that lets people RDP
>>>> into their applications in general.
>>>
>>> What do they use instead?
>>>
>>
>> As I mentioned in my previous email - they just hand all their
>> employees laptops.  Control the hardware, control the software,
>> control the security...
>
> I mean instead of rdp.  It's a simple solution which works really well
> on a LAN with Windoze.  What's the equivalent that works with Linux?

Well, I've never been in a company that runs Linux on the desktop, or
which even provides VDIs for Windows.  The most common solution is to
provide windows laptops to users with various software packages for
management/security/etc.

The closest thing to RDP for Linux that I'm aware of us various
NX-based implementations, like x2go, which I've mentioned a few times.
It can be somewhat finicky.  And of course there is VNC, which is much
less efficient.  I don't think either really gets to the level of RDP
in general.

I do sometimes wonder how the #1 server OS in the world somehow lacks
decent facilities for graphical remote login, and for sharing files
across the network.  (For the latter NFS is a real pain to set up in a
remotely secure fashion - part of the problem is that it is hard to
use some kind of a UUID to drive file permissions, and kerberos/etc is
a pain to set up.  There is certainly nothing approaching the ease of
just setting a password on a share or connecting to a windows domain
(even a samba-driven one)).

-- 
Rich