RE: Secure / Encrypt Terminal Services

Why not use the poor man's VPN and tunnel your terminal services sessions over SSH? Works like a charm...

ssh -L 3389:localhost:3389 administrator@SERVERNAME/IP

or use your favorite GUI-based SSH client and set up the forwarding...if you're looking for a stable and free GUI-based SSH client for Win32, try PuTTY (note I do not know the authors of PuTTY, just a happy user of the software): http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Good luck!

• Dave

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From: ohnonono@hushmail.com [mailto:ohnonono@hushmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:22 AM To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: Secure / Encrypt Terminal Services

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Does the community have an opinion on which is the best way to do this? Can it be done via IP-Sec? Basically we have a machine (tripwire manager) that will have access to all our networks. Due to politics (gotta love security made insecure by politics) it must be remotely managed. The CIO (god bless CIO's) has decided that we will use terminal services. Is there a way to encrypt the traffic so it is not flying around the network in clear text? Would IP-Sec be the recomended solution?

Suggestions or links (or gentle shoves) to the information would be great.

Thanks

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