[policy-1.9-5] VNC module in X AVC

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 20.03.2004 18:56, Russell Coker wrote:

> What exactly does Xvnc do? 

It starts a "virtual" X server - it does not attemts to interact with 
the local hardware, but it will listen on 6000+display port as a normal 
X server (so the clients can connect) and it will listen on the 
5900+display port, so that the vncviewer clients can connect (possibly 
remote, possibly several simultaneously) and on port 5800+display for 
http requests (essentially providing a Java version of the VNC client).

> Does it do the same sort of stuff as when the user 
> runs "startx" but for remote display only? 

This is different. Normally Xvnc is started by the /usr/bin/vncserver 
script (there is also /etc/rc.d/init.d/vncserver script which might need 
a separate treatment), which would first start Xvnc and then start 
appropriate X clients to the newly created display.

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