Quoting Johnathon Tinsley <kir...@kirrus.co.uk>: > Rob Beard wrote: >> On 17/01/2009 15:11, Ian Pascoe wrote: >>> Johnathon, et al, >>> >>> In your post from Thursday you mention you have OpenVPN installed >>> to provide >>> remote access etc. >>> >>> In Rob's case he doesn't appear against this but worried about connections >>> to his own private network. >>> >>> Do you know if you can set up an OpenVPN server on a hosting site, >>> no direct >>> connection to home network, but then either SSH to the OpenVPN server and >>> thence onto the client, or through some VNC equivilant? >>> > > The OpenVPN connection comes from the supportee's [see note below] > computer to the server. If you set it up correctly, you can have 2 > supportee's sshing directly to each other, over the VPN connection. > > What you really want, is to set it up so that each supportee's computer > links to the central OpenVPN server (any VPS could host a VPN server), > but is only accessible from the VPN server, so yes, the supporter would > then SSH into the VPN server, and from there to the supportee. > > The caveat with this is, realistically, you'd need a user account with > sudoer permissions on the supportee's computer, which would mean the > supporter's would have to be trusted NOT to steal data, or muck about.
There would need to be legal documentation involved here. The other issue is how Ubuntu-UK indemnifies itself against the volunteer "fixers". How do we know that a certain user knows enough about a certain subject to provide support? There are many many more issues that would need to be discussed before setting this up and getting it working, however I think a Proof of Concept could be a good start. M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
