RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland (rustdesk.com)
65 points by rustdesk 2 hours ago
inktype 13 minutes ago
RustDesk still does not support encrypted connections when self hosting: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/3714
ChocolateGod 32 minutes ago
How does this work on a technical level?
Does it framebuffer grab the current session and inject input events?
throwaway27448 34 minutes ago
What is rustdesk and how is it distinct from vnc?
Edit: i appreciate the explanations; thank you.
rcxdude 12 minutes ago
VNC is one way of doing remote GUI access (well, more a family of different protocols and products with different capabilities and tradeoffs). RustDesk is just another product that does the same thing but doesn't have a specific connection to VNC as a protocol so e.g. doesn't have to handle legacy authentication modes and stream formats. In my experience most remote access solutions beat VNC for performance, for example.
vablings 30 minutes ago
Well first there was TeamViewer which was VNC with more bells and whistles then it became enshittified. Then anydesk came along and ate up teamviewer then that became enshittified, Now we have rustdesk which seems to hopefully be a bit more immune to being enshittified.
If you already use VNC this is not something for you
andai an hour ago
Menu css looks a bit dodgy with the notification at the top:
manav an hour ago
Does my screen have to be on?
7bit an hour ago
Okay. The feature I'm waiting for is the self-hosted web client.
LoganDark an hour ago
RustDesk should fix their password requirements: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/2888
applfanboysbgon 44 minutes ago
It's open-source, so just build it yourself with the tiny change. Something this trivial could be done with a 30 second prompt at this point, so there's not even an excuse of "too much effort".
I will note that the XKCD password scheme being proposed there is, in fact, completely insecure. A modern consumer GPU can crack "four random English words" in a day. You can argue that it's the user's choice to be allowed to use insecure passwords, but arguing that that scheme is actually secure is just wrong.
tredre3 23 minutes ago
> A modern consumer GPU can crack "four random English words" in a day. [...] but arguing that that scheme is actually secure is just wrong.
Let me do just that!
This is a networked service. You send your password (or a hashed form) to it, and it validates it. You don't have the local hash to bruteforce it offline.
Even if we only consider the top 10k english words, it's 10000^4. It's going to take years to bruteforce this over a network because you'll go through so many rate-limits, cooldown periods, and outright bans that it's questionable whether it's even possible.
tialaramex 9 minutes ago
applfanboysbgon 13 minutes ago
throwaway27448 33 minutes ago
> A modern consumer GPU can crack "four random English words" in a day.
Sure, if you can rely on users using a specific format. The joy of the xkcd technique is you don't need to tell other people what yours is.
But, people just aren't going to remember strings of gibberish. Expecting users to do this is just silly.
applfanboysbgon 27 minutes ago
zuzululu an hour ago
so this means I can be on a vacation, turn on my ubuntu desktop remotely, login and control it ? I have a strong need for this as my desktop is also a server
VorpalWay an hour ago
For a remote Linux system you can also do a lot over plain SSH as well.
amelius an hour ago
You can already do this with VNC or Xpra (the latter is a screen/tmux for graphical applications).