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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: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday April 30 2017, @07:50PM
That would require learning Powershell. Why would I want to waste my time doing that? And how would I learn that anyway, since I don't have a Windows box to practice on, and would rather do almost anything than use Windows in my spare time?
Actually, you can run PowerShell everywhere [github.com]!
Now get going and clear that gay porn adware off of Aunt Lizzie's Windows 10 box!
[Not sure which is ickier, gay porn adware or Powershell on Linux]
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