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With linux you can issue a certificate and put it into putty and disable password login.
I think this is a great way to stop pesky bots hammering RDP login the whole time.
I have noticed on the Start SSL website, they generate a certificate for you, which gets installed onto your browser and you don't need to type in a password to login, as long as you have that certificate in the browser.
Is it possible to connect to RDP using certificate authentication from the client?
1Thanks - Do you know if it is possible to configure all this on a single machine? – Piotr Kula – 2014-05-07T18:57:03.017
Yes and no. Yes you can, but it requires a domain to work so that machine will also need to be a domain controller or already joined to a domain that has a domain controller. – Scott Chamberlain – 2014-05-07T20:25:46.083
1It is defiantly the right direction. To bad its such a nightmare to setup. It easier for me to write my own app that scans the event log and adds firewall rules against the attacker, than setup a certificate based login.. sigh – Piotr Kula – 2014-05-07T20:27:57.520