Secure remote desktop login?

[Dan Lund]

Have you looked at xrdp?  It uses the rdesktop protocol, and seems to
work nicely over an ethernet or wireless interface.
http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/

I've used this with a Windows laptop once when I was just putzing
around and looking for something to do with my time.  It uses the VNC
server as a backend and then transmits that output via the rdesktop
protocol.

Thanks,
Dan Lund

If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway,
and should fix your program.
--Linus Torvalds, Original Inventor of the Linux kernel
August, 2006



On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
> I'm specifying the configuration for secure, remote desktop login on a
> Linux box.  Here are the basic requirements:
>
> 1 - User's computers are running Windows XP (or maybe 2000 but not
> Vista) so the remote desktop client needs to run on Windows XP.
> 2 - The Linux desktop will be KDE (not that this should matter too much).
> 3 - At first the remote connection will be over the LAN, not over the
> Internet (not that this should matter much either).
> 4 - The connection between the client and the desktop server must be encrypted.
> 5 - The user must not be allowed to copy files or other data from the
> desktop server to their computer.  The user can only login and use the
> server desktop.
> 6 - The user will login using credentials on the desktop server
> independent of any other authentication mechanism.
>
> I think FreeNX (http://freenx.berlios.de/) fits this bill.  But I
> wanted to ask the group about any other options I may not know about.
> I'm shooting for a FS/OSS solution but am not against paying for it if
> that is the best thing to do.  (Meaning FS/OSS solutions that have pay
> support are fine.)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Alan
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