Secure remote desktop login?

[Eric Cope]

I use NXnomachine at work and it is better than vnc, as far as I can tell. I
assume Freenx would be similar.
Eric

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> 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
> >
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