Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Quoting Johnathon Tinsley <[email protected]>: > >> Rob Beard wrote: >>> On 17/01/2009 15:11, Ian Pascoe wrote: >>>> Johnathon, et al, >>>> >>>> In your post from Thursday you mention you have OpenVPN installed >>>> to provide >>>> remote access etc. >>>> >>>> In Rob's case he doesn't appear against this but worried about connections >>>> to his own private network. >>>> >>>> Do you know if you can set up an OpenVPN server on a hosting site, >>>> no direct >>>> connection to home network, but then either SSH to the OpenVPN server and >>>> thence onto the client, or through some VNC equivilant? >>>> >> The OpenVPN connection comes from the supportee's [see note below] >> computer to the server. If you set it up correctly, you can have 2 >> supportee's sshing directly to each other, over the VPN connection. >> >> What you really want, is to set it up so that each supportee's computer >> links to the central OpenVPN server (any VPS could host a VPN server), >> but is only accessible from the VPN server, so yes, the supporter would >> then SSH into the VPN server, and from there to the supportee. >> >> The caveat with this is, realistically, you'd need a user account with >> sudoer permissions on the supportee's computer, which would mean the >> supporter's would have to be trusted NOT to steal data, or muck about. > > There would need to be legal documentation involved here. The other > issue is how Ubuntu-UK indemnifies itself against the volunteer > "fixers". How do we know that a certain user knows enough about a > certain subject to provide support? There are many many more issues > that would need to be discussed before setting this up and getting it > working, however I think a Proof of Concept could be a good start. >
Legal documentation, plus getting the OpenVPN & SSH installed and configured on the supportee's machine. I think it would be worth discussing this at the meeting... What time does it start tomorrow? (Sorry, dreadful memory, and can't find it on the wiki) Johnathon -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
