John R Pierce wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote: >> <snip> >> >> >>>> Hi Warren, Nice explanation. I would like to ask what you >>>> recommend people do if they want to be able to ssh in from >>>> anywhere on the internet. Say they are going to be traveling and >>>> they know they will have to login from machines they have no >>>> control over, like an internet cafe or a Hotel's business >>>> services suite? >>>> >>>> >> <snip> >> I again offer you my "solution", which is to take with me "Live CDs" >> for CentOS 5.2 and Knoppix. I reboot the box in an Internet cafe, from >> a Live CD, do what I need/want to do, and when I am done, I remove the >> Live CD and reboot the public box again. I have not installed anything >> on their box and I am much safer, surfing, etc., on a public box. >> >> > > > i'm quite surprised many such internet cafes would let you run your own > software on their hardware. many of the 'cafe' systems I've seen are > booted off the network, or don't have CD drives, or could even be > running Linux already, such as these > http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/ Typically the case. The systems are 'locked' down boot wise, you might be able to do something they cannot charge for. Bring your own computer. For $300 you can have an ASUS computer for these basic tasks. If they have not implemented NAC, you can unplug the cafe system if need be (done that enough times).