Re: Remote Administration on W2K

From: Maarten Van Horenbeeck (maarten@daemon.be)
Date: 07/30/01 

Message-ID: <011001c11921$67489630$817ba1ac@BANSHEE>
From: "Maarten Van Horenbeeck" <maarten@daemon.be>
To: <SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Remote Administration on W2K
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:59:39 +0200

Personally, for remote management, I prefer using command-line tools which I
either pick up from the resource kit, write myself or find in the public
domain. Combined with the win32-port of the unix SSHD that gives me maximum
performance & less load on the uplink than a remote graphical interface.
And that can't be bad for a heavily used webserver, now can it :-)

Why should we use a graphical user interface for remote management... It's
slower, it takes up some bandwidth, and it most certainly has other
drawbacks, like load on the system. Above all of that, I personally think
that a command-line is much faster to get things done on ANY server,
including Win32.

Just my 2 cents,

Maarten Van Horenbeeck
maarten@daemon.be

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