This thread is interesting, I'll be looking for other suggestions in the comments. I'm currently using the free option of remote.it to connect to a raspberry pi behind a router, though I always have to go through the step of obtaining the connection url and random port before using something like putty.
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#22> Access your device's terminal from anywhere via the web Nah, nice try, but I'm good with ssh, key based authentication and few white-listed IPs.
It’d be nice if you could just outbound ssh from anywhere that has a browser, but sadly this isn’t the case.
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#23As much as I get, "make it simple for users" and "you can always read the script being downloaded", seeing a wget piped to sudo makes me think nothing in this world will ever be secure :(
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#25looooks fishy
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#26As much as I get, "make it simple for users" and "you can always read the script being downloaded", seeing a wget piped to sudo makes me think nothing in this world will ever be secure :(
Even if it’s not piped to sudo, how many people have their personal files and documents (ie. the stuff that can’t just be re-downloaded) owned by a user other than the one they log in as?
Desktop permissions are based on protecting a user’s data from other users, not from anything that they themselves are running.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’d be nice if you could just outbound ssh from anywhere that has a browser, but sadly this isn’t the case.
What do you mean by that?
As an an example, at my work you cannot make any outbound ssh connection. The only way to get one is to apply for a specific connection , where you have to explain why you need an outbound connection, in which case they open a port for you and the remote machine you specified.
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#28This might be useful as a backdoor around networks with strict rules that block SSH access, until the network admins detect and block this as well. People got fired for installing tools like this, think twice before trying with your company's servers.
Don't install remote access tools on company servers!
Anyway you could just as easily run SSH over another port, rather than using this. Unless your company is using deep packet inspection to recognise SSH traffic, but then it'd be weird to accept HTTPS traffic from a device that isn't supposed to have any.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by that?
As an an example, at my work you cannot make any outbound ssh connection. The only way to get one is to apply for a specific connection , where you have to explain why you need an outbound connection, in which case they open a port for you and the remote machine you specified.
Using tools like this to get around that restriction is quite possibly the worst idea I've seen today.
Re: Rtty – Access a device’s terminal from anywhere via the web
#30This thread is interesting, I'll be looking for other suggestions in the comments. I'm currently using the free option of remote.it to connect to a raspberry pi behind a router, though I always have to go through the step of obtaining the connection url and random port before using something like putty.
Remote.it looks pretty interesting. They have a desktop app for macOS in beta, as well.