Anyone aware of an rdesktop *replacement*?

[Dave Ulrick]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Chris Kloiber wrote:

> Not looking for a wrapper to make it pretty. I need an rdesktop replacement 
> with support for contacting Windows 2008 Datacenter with TLS encryption 
> enabled. I've done a bunch of searching, but came up empty, not even any 
> proprietary applications. I work at a large web hosting provider, and am 
> seeing more and more systems that I have to use a Virtual Windows7 instance 
> to manage.
>
> Conversely, if anyone knows of patches to do this with rdesktop, I'd like to 
> grab those too (even if they are half-baked patches).

I'm not familiar with Windows 2008, but if all you need is to run rdesktop 
(RDP) over SSL you might take a look at 'stunnel':

http://www.stunnel.org/

A quick Google ('stunnel rdp "windows 2008"') suggests that some folks 
have been successful in using RDP with 'stunnel'.

Dave
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Dave Ulrick
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