Remote Administration
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Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered!
Introduction[edit]
Warning[edit]
Remote administration of any system should be considered a potential anonymity hazard, since it is not under the user's physical protection and could be compromised. Although counter-intuitive, it is necessary to follow all relevant recommendations in the Surfing Posting Blogging chapter to stay safe:
- Beware of Keystroke and Mouse Fingerprinting.
- Beware of Stylometry.
- Beware of difficulties in paying anonymously, see Money.
At a minimum, check the connection is encrypted / authenticated, because Virtual Network Computing (VNC) [archive] by default is unencrypted / unauthenticated. Possible methods:
- Perhaps by tunneling VNC through SSH;
- Running VNC through a Tor Onion Service;
- Using both SSH and an Onion Service, for stronger encryption and authentication; or
- Onion Services Authentication.
UDP[edit]
It is suggested to utilize software that does not require the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), for the following reason.
The Tor software does not yet support UDP, [1] although Tor provides a DnsPort.
If UDP is urgently required in Whonix ™, a limited workaround is provided. For the most secure method, see Tunnel UDP over Tor.
Remmina[edit]
It is possible to remotely administer any operating system with GNU/Linux by using the Remmina [archive] desktop client. Remmina supports multiple network protocols, including RDP, VNC, SPICE, NX, XDMCP, SSH and EXEC. For an overview of Remmina features, see here [archive].
Note there are two separate Debian packages:
remmina: the main GTK+ application.remmina-plugins: a set of plugins to support various network protocols.
Install remmina.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the remmina package.
sudo apt-get install remmina
The procedure of installing remmina is complete.
If you are interested in using Remmina, please first search the forums for this topic: https://forums.whonix.org/search?q=remmina [archive]
See Also[edit]
Help Wanted[edit]
Please contribute by helping to create full working instructions in Whonix! See: add user documentation for Remote Administration, Keystroke Fingerprinting, Stylometry [archive].
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