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Recently, someone in my family was not able to get into their home PC with their password, and called for assistance. This means having to drive down to the machine to see what they are doing, and log in with the appropriate account that can reset that password. Work commitments preclude driving there right away to see what is happening, and I am trying to locate a remote access solution. If they were logged into the machine, I could use some sort of remote assistance tool, but that is not an option in this case. There is the possibility of setting up SSH or OpenVPN to access the machine via the Internet, but I am not certain leaving those tools running all the time is the smartest idea in this day and age.
What recommendations do the Soylent community have for securely managing a machine over the Internet when someone is not logged into it?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by turgid on Sunday April 30 2017, @07:02PM (1 child)
Everyone in my family knows I don't "do Windows." Problem solved.
Similarly, at work, I don't "do Windows." I'm far more productive than most other people. I don't waste time on Windows nonsense, so I get more practice honing useful skills. The boss respects that. By the time people have negotiated with umpteen managers and the IT department to get some crazy piece of closed-source software with a shiny GUI installed, I've usually written a couple of shell scripts to solve the problem and to automate it in future.
There are people today who have never heard of cron.
What is the world coming to? I know, systemd.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday April 30 2017, @07:50PM
What is the world coming to? There are people today who have never heard of cron.
There is this:
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!
But even when people had heard of Cron, they did not necessarily like him all that much:
Cron, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Cron... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!
(Slightly modified from Conan's original soliloquy.)