Open Port Indicator?

[Arwyn Hainsworth]

On 15/03/07, Soren Hansen <sh at linux2go.dk> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:37:57PM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> > Now, what concerns me is that once you enable Remote Desktop there is
> > no Notification Area icon indicating that its active and so it can
> > easily be forgotten about.
>
> I've always thought that the option of just giving any user access
> without authentication is broken and should be removed. Something like
> what happened to this user was bound to happen sooner or later and I
> can't think up a use case that justifies its presence. Can any of you?
>

I had a friend once who kept his home PC on so that he could log in
via remote desktop from work. IMHO that's a perfectly normal use case,
so it should be possible to log in without local user intervention and
removing that ability would be a mistake.

In theory remote desktop should be no less secure that ssh. Both allow
remote connection, both require password authentication and both can
be encrypted. One allows command line access, the other graphical
access.

A notification area icon or applet indicating the current connections
made is a nice idea though.

Arwyn