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I've been managing remote (and local) servers from my smartphone with RDP and SSH for almost 2 decades, not sure why I would use anything else.
by leptons 3y ago
I've been managing remote (and local) servers from my smartphone with RDP and SSH for almost 2 decades, not sure why I would use anything else.
- HenryBemis 3y agoI've tried from a bunch of different phones to use RDP, and apart from launching some SW/service or run a batch, I just cannot without the pixels/screen. It's just too darn small. I wonder what smartphones you got.. some phablet with 7"-8" or a typical 6"-6.4"?
- leptons 3y agoRight now a Galaxy Fold 4. It's pretty great. But I was doing this stuff on an HTC wizard back in 2005. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard It had a slide-out keyboard which I loved. I would even write code remotely to fix a critical bug, and deploy it, while I was out having lunch with my team. No need to rush back to the office. Granted, I had better eyesight 20 years ago, but now I just use readers, can see the screen just fine.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoI mean IMHO RDP has too many vulnerabilities too often to have it exposed to any network your phone also can promiscuously join. I would far rather expose a simple HTTP API for limited actions I consider safe.
- joseda-hg 3y agoWhat about something with something like TailScale?
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoBehind a VPN is fine, at least for personal use. At work, phones are never able to get on the same network as our servers though, and considering the random nature of apps people often install, my recommendation would be that they should not.
- leptons 3y agoSmartphones can certainly join VPNs and be secure using RDP. I don't have RDP exposed publicly. Some random HTTP solution is the last thing I would trust.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoNobody should be exposing a service like this directly to the internet. It should either be behind or wrapped by some better authentication system.