[K12OSN] OT: New admin tool, vnc, secureVNC,ssh...

[Les Mikesell]

Guy-Michel Lessard wrote:
> http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3214/

Interesting, but it's not _that_ hard to do vnc over ssh the hard way. 
The version of vncviewer included in k12ltsp supports the '-via ' option 
so you can give the ssh target (which doesn't have to be the same 
machine but it can be) and it sets the tunnel up transparently:
vncviewer -via gateway  remotehost
gives you a vnc connection to remote host which may be behind a firewall 
with only ssh access to the gateway machine permitted through.

And GUI access to files is easy enough by telling nautilus to use ssh.

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   Les Mikesell
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