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Top 5 Rust remote-desktop Projects
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rustdesk
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
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InfluxDB
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MirrorX
Remote control tool for enterprise, teams and individuals. Build fast and security remote control network with fully control in a short time.
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devolutions-gateway
A blazing fast relay server adaptable to different protocols and desired levels of traffic inspection.
Project mention: IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-21RDP-over-SSH will break Kerberos authentication for two reasons: 1) you'll point the RDP client to localhost and a random port and 2) you won't get a KDC line-of-sight. The irony is Microsoft has demoed this with SSH over Azure Arc, which can only result in an NTLM downgrade.
IronRDP is designed to work with Devolutions Gateway (https://github.com/Devolutions/devolutions-gateway) for just-in-time RDP connections made from the web or through the desktop client. Devolutions Gateway also supports just-in-time KDC proxying alongside the main RDP connection, making Kerberos possible.
You can install the free standalone web access package of Devolutions Gateway to try it out, it will give you a simple web interface where you can enter the hostname, username and password.
But if you really want the simplest solution, it's with the rest of the Devolutions stack with Remote Desktop Manager and Devolutions Server. In the end, you'll be able to make RDP connections from RDM or through the web with just a double-click, and it'll automatically generate short-lived tokens and make RDP + Kerberos work seamlessly: https://devolutions.net/gateway/
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source remote-desktop projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustdesk | 91,021 |
| 2 | rustdesk-server | 8,006 |
| 3 | Weylus | 7,963 |
| 4 | MirrorX | 816 |
| 5 | devolutions-gateway | 107 |
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