Security Enhancements - LED for active connection and Authentication against central authority
- @cghague
Enjoying trying out our first TinyPilot.
There is great potential with a few changes.
I'm willing to do the work or collaborate.
I haven't dug into the device coding yet and don't really know what I can and can't change.
For broad adoption in our global org we would need :
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Visible indicator that a remote user session is in progress.
Pulling an LED of the pi would be sufficient. -
Authentication against LDAP , Radius or some other central authentication engine
This is really important. It is impossible to manage these boxes with local credentials.
I am sure others have asked for this.
- CCharles Hague @cghague2025-01-21 10:51:48.274Z
Hi Mark, thank you for your great suggestions on improving TinyPilot!
We have an internal ticket open to investigate adding support for LDAP, but unfortunately, I can't provide a timeframe for it. We consider suggestions and requests like this when planning our roadmap, so I've shared your interest in this feature with the team.
Physically indicating that a session is active is an intriguing concept no other customers have requested. We have some upcoming work that might tie in nicely with this, so if you could share your use case for this functionality, I'd be happy to raise it as a potential feature.
You mentioned that you might be interested in getting involved with making code changes. We welcome contributions from our users to the community version of TinyPilot. You can find more information in our public GitHub repository.
I hope this is helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions.