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Windows Server Forum / Windows 2000 / Terminal Services / February 2006clear the contents of the RDP connection window...
I was recently away on a training course and went in to an internet cafe to connect to work via RDP. When I was done, I could not figure out how to clear our servername (in the Connect to box), my username and our domain from the RDP connection window. This means someone could potentially sit down at this machine and have everything they need to connect to our terminal server except for my password! There must be an easy way to remove this information from a PC... Can anyone help me?? Thanks, Brad Delete the default.rdp file from the My Documents folder Delete the MRU entry from the registry, HKCU\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default Delete entry under LocalDevices, if you instructed the client not to ask you again about drive redirection, HKCU\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\LocalDevices You should change your password immediately after using a public or other non-secure computer. Internet cafe computers could easily have a keyboard logger installed. -TP > I was recently away on a training course and went in to an internet > cafe to connect to work via RDP. When I was done, I could not figure [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Brad This is not your intial question, but that why I do NOT recommend to have a TS server exposed to the web. You shoud protect it behind a VPN. Any kind of VPN will be fine (PPTP, SSL, ...). For you, the PPTP one can comes for free with your Windows Server, and it easy to setup on client machine. As a matter of fact, SSL is the more convenient. By the way, do not forget to setup your users account to lockup after, say, 3 bad login/password. For the cleaning of the list, the answer above is comprehensive. Regards, > I was recently away on a training course and went in to an internet cafe to > connect to work via RDP. When I was done, I could not figure out how to [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Brad -This is not your intial question, but that why I do NOT recommend to have a -TS server exposed to the web. You shoud protect it behind a VPN. Any kind of -VPN will be fine (PPTP, SSL, ...). For you, the PPTP one can comes for free -with your Windows Server, and it easy to setup on client machine. As a matter -of fact, SSL is the more convenient. By the way, do not forget to setup your -users account to lockup after, say, 3 bad login/password. For the cleaning of -the list, the answer above is comprehensive. - Why is this more secure in the scenario he outlined? If a keylogger was installed on the PC in question, then the OP would have still had to setup a VPN connection from the internet cafe, which would have meant typing his password........ -Rob robatwork at mail dot com That's why I will probably never connect with TS from a public computer. That's also why my latop is always with me when it's time to do some serious job across the web. Anyway, I think thit is another question. My position is quite simple: no TS server directly on the WAN side. By the way and regarding Internet Café, I hope that most of them have secure computer with no way for user to setup any kind of malware. Regards, Raphael > -This is not your intial question, but that why I do NOT recommend to have a > -TS server exposed to the web. You shoud protect it behind a VPN. Any kind of [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > -Rob > robatwork at mail dot com -Anyway, I think thit is another question. My position is quite simple: no TS -server directly on the WAN side. By the way and regarding Internet Café, I -hope that most of them have secure computer with no way for user to setup any -kind of malware. I'd guess you overestimate the abilities or desires of internet cafes. I suspect most of them simply wipe their PCs and build their PCs from a clean ghost image daily / weekly.... -Rob robatwork at mail dot com |
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