OpenRPort - Remote Management Tool with Secure Tunneling!

[@vitorhugo3628]

Great to have this open source system again, I'm sure it will evolve a lot.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I hope so. Make sure to go over to Github and show them some love.

[@balfit]

Thank you Brian, it's much appreciated. I was one of the people who got really disappointed. I made my own script-based solution at the time and deployed it everywhere. But indeed did I miss for quite some time the convenient and robust features rport had.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad it's back for sure, but sounds like you came up with a solid solution as well.

[@Glatze603]

Thanks Brian! Good to know there is still soneone who support such projects 🙂 Thanks for the video about OpenRport.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure!

[@brokenfpv]

Finally! I was disappointed when they closed sourced it. Thanks so much for creating a "followup" video on this matter.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad it was helpful!

[@yourpcmd]

The frontend is a work in progress and has already been published on the organization page.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It's exciting.

[@juanmolina8577]

Thank you! I have been looking for something to manage my self hosting vms for while. I will definitely give it a try.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It's an awesome tool! I'm really looking forward to the new front end as well.

[@mesutdemirci7933]

Great to have this open source system again, I'm sure it will evolve a lot. edumeet install please :Dİ:

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Edumeet is on my list my friend!

[@terrorpup]

I was told years ago, when I use to use PICO to learn Vi because it's on all systems. I am glad I did because I can use to do some much more because it has sed/awk built in. Syntax color has save my butt so many time. I am able to work Solaris, *BSD systems, and all Linux systems. Oh, Less has VI built in. Thus, Less is more.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Indeed. Vi is awesome, I just resist because I'm stubborn I suppose.

[@marcschillinger4953]

Hi Brian, thanks for your Videos. I also love open source and discovered Openrport from you. I use Tailscale (similar to Netbird) and was wondering what additional funktionality you get with Openrport?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

So, RPort is an RMM (A remote machine management) system. It provides an overview of all your devices, their state, resources being used, and more. Also the scripting in it to push updates, or do various things individually or in bulk is a huge plus, and it makes secure tunnels for connecting via VNC, RDP, SSH, etc. as needed, and with a limited time frame. So, the tunnel is destroyed automatically after x minutes, and so on. You could build all of that from Netbird, Zabbix, Ansible, and a Terminal / VNC client and server, so if you have that, you are doing well.

[@marcschillinger4953]

Thank you very much for taking the time to explain. You convinced me, I'll give it a try.

[@mikekonowaluk1765]

Thanks for the video! So the main instance frontend is accessible publicly but just the clients over vpn?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

The way I set it up in the video, yes, but it doesn't have to be that way.

[@JorisSelsJS]

awesome video! could you make a video on how to setup hi.events? thanks!!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Working on that one. Hopefully out in a month or so.

[@JorisSelsJS]

@@AwesomeOpenSource sounds amazing!! however, could we dm a bit? I have been trying to set this up for ages and i really need it soon for a non-profit project i help.

[@asimabusallam3147]

thanks man

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

[@Rockwolf50]

As okay as this is, this could have all been way easer with docker. The fact developers are creating new projects and not dockerizing them is concerning.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

There is a dockerized version from a community member, I just didn't dig into it yet.

[@nicolosantorso1361]

Hi, which distro with kde are you using for your desktop?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Kubuntu 24.04

[@bryanmontgomery610]

This is amazing! I have been looking for a good home RMM for all my workstations and servers. I unfortunately can't get my clients to show up in the server, when I run the install script on Windows it says it was successful but nothing is showing up in RPort. I have tried disabling the Windows Firewall, restarting the Rport service, and disabling the UFW firewall on the server itself and still nothing. Let me know if anyone has run into this.

[@bhupiistersingh4097]

Does openrport support Remote desktop on linux client with wayland?

[@terrorpup]

I thought anything with R, like RSH and RLogin were a big security no no.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Well, I don't know why that would be an issue, but OpenRPort uses ssh tunnels to make any outgoing connections (and actually uses a reverse tunnel I believe, so client initiated).

[@terrorpup]

@@AwesomeOpenSource ok, rport seem to be a different app, but rsh is not encypted, we had to shut those ports off because people would try to come in. This looks like a VNC. RSH was used by Norton to so backup for one of their apps they sold.

[@balfit]

As I recall, rlogin was for remote login and rsh for remote shell. Both unencrypted. Then ssh (secure shell) came along and the peepers had to find another source of joy... The unencrypted ones were used back in the days when having any connection was a wonder itself that needed skills and a very few tools enabled prying. Even less people knew or wanted to use them maliciously...

[@ssivian]

at 3.11: Gratis is LATIN not Spanish 😉

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

@@ssivian indeed, but I live on the border of Mexico where Spanish is spoken heavily, and of course based on Latin.

[@HaileyesusDessie]

Hello Brian, how are you? I found your channel recently and you are sharing so much valuable info...thank you! I tried to contact you on telegram but I think you are no longer using it. Is there a way I can reach you?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Sure, the easiest way is to go to https:/discuss.opensourceisawesome.com and post in the #help-me-please channel, or ping me directly @mickintx