VNC

Richard McLarty rmclarty at midsouth.rr.com
Thu Jun 17 18:39:42 UTC 2004


Ben,

Slick documentation! I feel much better now knowing that my VNC ports 
are closed and now flowing through port 22. Richard

Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Mark Haney wrote:
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>>Yeah there are a couple of other things that I found out when I started  
>>using it on my boxes instead of exporting X over SSH.  fire up a terminal  
>>session on your FC box in any manner you choose (ssh, telnet, etc) and run  
>>vcnpasswd. 
>>    
>>
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>It's not a good idea to use telnet.  SSH is *much* better.  Also, I have a 
>quicky howto on tunneling VNC over ssh using PuTTY.
>
>http://www.benjamin.weiss.name/putty-tunnel.html
>
>Doing it this way also means that you can keep the firewall closed to the 
>vnc ports and only allow ssh through.  much more secure. :)
>
>Ben
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