So I’ve been using Rustdesk with a self hosted server for business and personal use now for some time. However, it is definitely the sketchiest foss software I’ve used. It seems to be based in China but the developers keep lying and saying its in Singapore.

Here is a list if everything I’ve found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/14kjvkg/community_consensus_on_rustdesk_with_all_the/

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/1159

https://www.reddit.com/r/rustdesk/comments/y230hf/my_rustdesk_client_try_to_communication_with/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/10ppntj/reminder_about_the_shadyness_of_rustdesk/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/109tn1i/rustdesk_server_117_supports_ipv6_now_selfhosted/j42pf4m/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/uurta8/_/

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/y80sw1/as_someone_that_knows_nothing_about_virtualremote/isxvib2/

https://youtu.be/JIAdEGX_sIU

It seems that now the clients and OSS server are completely foss which is good. They also no longer have public servers in China according to them. In the client itself it also now has better defaults so you are less at risk of getting attacked.

It still is sketch but it now is slightly less sketch I guess? Either way its not ideal.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•9 months ago

    I wouldn’t touch it with a stick. The whole thing is just shady to say the least. Nothing trustworthy whatsoever.

    MeshCentral needs to get better. We need it.

    • Possibly linuxOPEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      Mesh central isn’t a replacement as it solves different problems

        • Possibly linuxOPEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Meshcentral allows a admin to control machines from a admin panel. Rustdesk allows for a person (doesn’t need to be admin) to get into another machine if they are authenticated.

          The authentication is the key. If you install the mesh agent on your machine you no longer control that device. It is effectively remote management.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•9 months ago

            True, those are pretty different use cases.

            Do you know of any RD app that works nice with Wayland and supports RD from the DE login screen?

            • Possibly linuxOPEnglish
              1•9 months ago

              What your asking for probably isn’t going to be available as Wayland has stronger security restrictions. They only way I know of to do this would be to dump the display buffer continuously and then send inputs via udev. That would be problematic to do and I doubt if there is any software that can do it. If there is it would likely need to run as root.