[windows2000] Re: New RDP Client, again

  • From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:13:55 -0000 (GMT)

Hi Ray,

> What the hell is the point in making me enter logon credentials in
> the RDP client instead of just entering them in the Windows logon dialog
> box if I've chosen not to specify credentials yet?

My educated guess on this front is that there was an attack published a
while back that stated if you were to get the timings of the key presses
you could figure out what group of keys the user was pushing. This meant
that attacks against passwords etc became a lot easier.

This is probably the logic behind what they have done. They would have
started with this version and just written everything else down as "Out of
scope" and just let it die of it's own accord.

I am with Jim on the Remote Desktops MMC, I use it pretty extensively.

Berny

> Hi list,
>
>
>
> I'd like to share an opinion.  THE NEW RDP CLIENT SUCKS!
>
>
>
> Here are my issues:
>
>
>
> .         The way that it saves logon credentials is very frustrating.
> For
> one, it takes about 15 steps to get the credentials setup, and as far as I
> can tell, I can't setup RDP files with saved credentials without actually
> connecting to the remote machine.
>
> .         Secondly, it seems that the logon credentials are not stored in
> the RDP file.  This is infuriating.  I have a bunch of RDP files, many of
> which connect to the same machine.  But, they are meant to have different
> logon credentials.  But, this seems to no longer be possible, since the
> credentials are saved on a per-host basis.  I'm going to have to fall back
> to setting up unique host names in my HOSTS file to get around this.
>
> .         What the hell is the point in making me enter logon credentials
> in
> the RDP client instead of just entering them in the Windows logon dialog
> box
> if I've chosen not to specify credentials yet?  It seems as though the
> reasoning behind this has something to do with security.  I guess this
> kinda
> makes sense, although it's only applicable when connecting to another
> Vista
> machine (and the new server OS, I'll assume).  I also find this to be a
> bit
> of a PITA, and I hope it's a configurable option on the host machine
> whether
> or not to allow ad-hoc connections to the logon screen.
>
> .         The logon credentials dialog box requires too many clicks, but
> this seems to be the theme in Vista.
>
> .         I can understand (but don't like) why I can't paste the password
> textbox in the user credentials dialog, but why can't I paste into the
> username area?  Basic functionality.
>
>
>
> Thanks for letting me bitch.
>
>
>
> Ray at work
>
>
>
>

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