Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:38 AM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> Suppose you use a VPN connection. How do does the client (employee) >> secure their own network and the machine they're using to work remotely >> then? > > Poorly, most likely. Your data is probably not nearly as important to > them as their data is, and most people don't take great care of their > own data.
That's not what I meant to ask. Assume you are an employee supposed to work from home through a VPN connection: How do you protect your LAN? > [...] >> What's the Linux equivalent of RDP sessions? Some sort of VNC seems to >> usually require a lot of bandwidth, and I wouldn't know how to run it as >> a service so that someone could just start a client (like rdesktop) and >> log in to the server as they can do with Windoze servers. --- I only >> found x11rdp which appears to be incompatible with current X servers. > > There is stuff like xtogo and other NX-like technologies, but the > trend seems to be towards client-side rendering which makes them > perform about as well as VNC. I mostly gave up on it ages ago - it > was fairly fragile to keep working as well. I do know one of the > maintainers - perhaps it has gotten better in recent years. > > 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? This sounds as if it's basically impossible to work from a remote location, at least when Linux comes into it at some point. > [...]
