rem0te: businesses, levels and capabilities
For the Platform Admin and for Business Owners: how rem0te's three levels and the business boundary are enforced on the server, the twelve capabilities and their defaults, who may connect to which computer, why nobody can raise their own access, what happened to the old roles, and the three switches behind Quick Connect.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 45 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- rem0te · open source
Skills you'll practise
- Explain what each of the three levels can and cannot do, and why the business is the security boundary
- Choose the smallest set of capabilities for a person's work and grant per-computer access deliberately
- Predict the effect of revoking a capability, disabling a business or probing another business's ids
- Map legacy roles to their post-migration capabilities when reviewing an upgraded install
- Find which of the three Quick Connect conditions is stopping a person
Course outline
- 1.rem0te: businesses, levels and capabilitiesVideo · 2 min
- 2.Three levels, one boundaryLesson · 15 min
- 3.Capabilities and who may connectLesson · 16 min
- 4.Quick Connect switches, search and reviewsLesson · 14 min
- 5.rem0te: businesses, levels and capabilities: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- rem0te docs: Access control (three levels, capabilities, business boundary, Quick Connect, migration)
- rem0te README (levels, managed devices vs Quick Connect, enrolling, limitations)
- rem0te CHANGELOG (0.7.0 to 0.18.18: rotation, access model, device secret, inventory, reinstall agent, Tactical RMM)
- rem0te docs: Setup guide (first business, enrolling, configuration reference, directory layout)
- rem0te docs: API reference (every route and its required capability)
- rem0te docs: Public API (keys, scopes, endpoints, response shapes, errors)
- rem0te docs: Architecture (identity and credentials, configuration chain, host metrics)
- rem0te docs: Screenshot gallery (descriptions of each screen)
- rem0te docs: Security audit (internal review by the project, v0.13.0)
- MSP Zero: rem0te tool page
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