On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:09 -0700, Alan Dayley 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? > ---- > freenx - don't look any further. > > I don't know what your 'server' is running but RHEL/CentOS has freenx > server available in CentOS Plus repository, Fedora has it available in > standard repositories and I would venture that any Debian installation > would have it packaged and ready to install. > > FreeNX does a number of things... > - encrypted SSL > - compression for excellent transmissions, even through congested > network space (i.e., Internet) > - can possibly use local printers/hard drive (I presume you can disable > this feature too) > - supports copy/paste from to/from host > > The client is downloaded free from 'nomachine.org' > > Nomachine.com also sells their NX Server which is probably better than > the FreeNX version but to be honest, FreeNX has always given me what I > need. > > I am concerned though that you are thinking that you can give a user a > shell on a system and prevent them from copying files to/from anywhere. > I don't think that is a reasonable expectation. I think if your > expectation is to really put limitations on a user, you should be using > something like LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org) > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Mike Hoy Saguaro Sports --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss