sfx2000
Part of the Furniture
Been playing around with the recent Raspbian release from last month - Jessie with Pixel...
If you have a Pi2/3 - it's worth checking out - the UI updates are nice, but the real value is the modern browser (Chromium) and RealVNC server...
A common question for many is how to remotely admin their router (esp. on the AsusWRT subforums), and the common approach is either to enable SSH, or enable the WebGUI - both of which are extremely risky...
Raspbian has a full-on OpenSSH implementation, and can be directed to whatever port one wants, and one can lock it down pretty tight...
The alt approach would be to just port forward port 5900 and use RealVNC - the RealVNC viewer software is free to use, and the PIXEL includes a free server license...
The caveat here is that RealVNC will use the "pi" user account credentials as a default to login to VNC, so one should absolutely change the password from the default to something more robust...
As you can see below - the broswer works just fine here - Pi2 is a bit slow, Pi3 is much better - I wouldn't recommend doing this with Pi1 or PiZero - but one can always try.
If folks are interested, I'll go a bit more into details on how to make this work, but Pi as a jumpbox makes a lot of sense rather than exposing the Router directly...
If you have a Pi2/3 - it's worth checking out - the UI updates are nice, but the real value is the modern browser (Chromium) and RealVNC server...
A common question for many is how to remotely admin their router (esp. on the AsusWRT subforums), and the common approach is either to enable SSH, or enable the WebGUI - both of which are extremely risky...
Raspbian has a full-on OpenSSH implementation, and can be directed to whatever port one wants, and one can lock it down pretty tight...
The alt approach would be to just port forward port 5900 and use RealVNC - the RealVNC viewer software is free to use, and the PIXEL includes a free server license...
The caveat here is that RealVNC will use the "pi" user account credentials as a default to login to VNC, so one should absolutely change the password from the default to something more robust...
As you can see below - the broswer works just fine here - Pi2 is a bit slow, Pi3 is much better - I wouldn't recommend doing this with Pi1 or PiZero - but one can always try.
If folks are interested, I'll go a bit more into details on how to make this work, but Pi as a jumpbox makes a lot of sense rather than exposing the Router directly...