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How do you Remotely Manage the Family's Computers?

posted by martyb on Sunday April 30 2017, @01:22PM   Printer-friendly
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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?

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  • (Score: 1) by darkpixel on Sunday April 30 2017, @06:43PM

    by darkpixel (4281) on Sunday April 30 2017, @06:43PM (#501945)

    Yes, unfortunately. Great question though, as I have been thinking about ways around that.

    Specifically making the SSH component available for anyone to download and install so that you can spin up your own SSH endpoint for remote management.