On 4/25/2019 12:47 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Busy day! I got to the museum around 11am and stayed to 11pm.
We had a good amount of visitors today. Several families came through, including a few engineers.
Jeff B. and I worked on VCF East preparation between the visitors.
After-hours, I made good progress on our new info kiosk. I used aeronautical-grade velcro (thank you Martin) to attach one of the micro form-factor PCs to the back of the 27" touchscreen monitor, configured all the OpenKiosk software settings, and learned how to connect from our office PC to the web server with SSH (thank you Bill Dudley for the telephone tech support). I know SSH is very secure, but afterward I decided to put FTP on the web server because (don't kill me) I prefer a point-and-click way to move files. Then I spent an hour or two on the kiosk content. Got the main template finished. All that's left to do is update a few content pages, tie back the kiosk cabling, and hang a sign from the ceiling pointing to the kiosk. Probably another 2 hours total and then it will be done.
I strongly recommend ditching FTP and using SSH/SFTP, (even if you use a pre-shared key with no key password), you're still getting more security than FTP could offer. If you really MUST use FTP, try setting up FTP using TLS/SSL encryption of the control channel, so the password isn't sent in plaintext. -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com