Re:Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second...
by walrus01 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:36PM
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If I had to guess, no, barrier is much like VNC in that it's expected you have a ssh wrapper set up with public/private key authentication.
I've only used it between macos and linux machines, so that's easy. An example of the very tiny shell script that I use for VNC-over-SSH to a remote machine.
In which the VNC daemon on the remote machine only listens on its own localhost, and I use ssh to form the tunnel then use the vnc client on my workstation to connect to localhost:5902 to access it.
echo "localhost port 5902 for the VNC client to remotehostname.net"
I actually think this is better because for a very small open source project like barrier, that might literally be developed by one person, the workload and time/effort to be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you've implemented the crypto libraries correctly is a lot of work and worry.
Whereas if you use ssh you can be fairly certain that it's been battle tested by a huge number of people who have a lot more time and resources than yourself.
I've only used it between macos and linux machines, so that's easy. An example of the very tiny shell script that I use for VNC-over-SSH to a remote machine.
In which the VNC daemon on the remote machine only listens on its own localhost, and I use ssh to form the tunnel then use the vnc client on my workstation to connect to localhost:5902 to access it.
ssh -v -L 5902:127.0.0.1:5901 -C -N -f -l myusername -i ~/.ssh/my_ssh_id remotehostname.net
echo "localhost port 5902 for the VNC client to remotehostname.net"
I actually think this is better because for a very small open source project like barrier, that might literally be developed by one person, the workload and time/effort to be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you've implemented the crypto libraries correctly is a lot of work and worry.
Whereas if you use ssh you can be fairly certain that it's been battle tested by a huge number of people who have a lot more time and resources than yourself.