Selfhosted

39435 readers

2 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What's your thoughts on Rustdesk? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So I've been using Rustdesk with a self hosted server for business and personal use now for some time. However, it is definitely the sketchiest foss software I've used. It seems to be based in China but the developers keep lying and saying its in Singapore.

Here is a list if everything I've found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/14kjvkg/community_consensus_on_rustdesk_with_all_the/

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/1159

https://www.reddit.com/r/rustdesk/comments/y230hf/my_rustdesk_client_try_to_communication_with/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/10ppntj/reminder_about_the_shadyness_of_rustdesk/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/109tn1i/rustdesk_server_117_supports_ipv6_now_selfhosted/j42pf4m/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/uurta8/_/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/y80sw1/as_someone_that_knows_nothing_about_virtualremote/isxvib2/

https://youtu.be/JIAdEGX_sIU

It seems that now the clients and OSS server are completely foss which is good. They also no longer have public servers in China according to them. In the client itself it also now has better defaults so you are less at risk of getting attacked.

It still is sketch but it now is slightly less sketch I guess? Either way its not ideal.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mesh central isn't a replacement as it solves different problems

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Aren't they both remote desktop apps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meshcentral allows a admin to control machines from a admin panel. Rustdesk allows for a person (doesn't need to be admin) to get into another machine if they are authenticated.

The authentication is the key. If you install the mesh agent on your machine you no longer control that device. It is effectively remote management.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

True, those are pretty different use cases.

Do you know of any RD app that works nice with Wayland and supports RD from the DE login screen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What your asking for probably isn't going to be available as Wayland has stronger security restrictions. They only way I know of to do this would be to dump the display buffer continuously and then send inputs via udev. That would be problematic to do and I doubt if there is any software that can do it. If there is it would likely need to run as root.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Found this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-RDP-Remote-Login

I believe I've read something similar for kwin, I'll update my post if I find it.