[SLL] kioskcd is a really cool idea...

Kurt Buff kurt.buff at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 15:34:29 PST 2007


On Dec 20, 2007 1:42 PM, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007, Kurt Buff wrote:
> >We do something similar in many cases for VPN access for our company -
> >if the employee isn't in the running for a company-issued laptop, we
> >give them a CD with a VMWare player of Ubuntu running PPTP and
> >rdesktop, which gives them access to the Windows Terminal Services
> >machine. The VM runs under a severely restricted environment, so they
> >can't update it.
> >
> >It's a little slow if you don't have a reasonable machine at home, but
> >it works just fine.
> >
> >I'll be upgrading the image at some point to do IPSec instead of PPTP.
>
> You might want to look at OpenVPN instead of IPSec.  It's easier to
> configure (arguably), works well with clients behind NAT routers, and there
> are GUI clients for OS X and the Windows virus.

That is indeed one I'm looking at now. I like the idea a lot.

I've also been looking at sslexplorer -
http://3sp.com/showSslExplorerCommunity.do

Kurt


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