On Monday, January 18, 2016 08:35:20 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:57 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:26 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > >>> Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> 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.
VDIs are gaining ground in bigger companies as part of the BYOD push. Especially using Citrix XenDesktop with the icaclient, this works really well. > 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)). I'd love to get something similar to RDP working on linux. But I'm not sufficiently skilled to implement it all myself. -- Joost
