[K12OSN] ssh commands

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Actually, I use VNC across an SSH tunnel, and it works just fine.  All 
you have to do is port-forward.  Also, the VNC that comes with CentOS 5 
is itself able to set up its own SSH tunnel.  So, it too is a good solution.

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Conrad Lawes wrote:
>
> I concur with William. I am still amazed that folks are still using 
> vnc when freenx or nomachine is sooo much faster and easier to setup 
> than vnc.
>
> Out-of-the-box freenx is more secure since it uses the ssh protocol by 
> default.
>
>
> http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/FreeNX
>
> http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, William Fragakis 
> <william at fragakis.com <mailto:william at fragakis.com>> wrote:
>
>     Using freenx server (I've had better luck with the nxclients as
>     opposed
>     to the freenx clients) has worked for me to have a full remote desktop
>     via ssh.
>
>     William
>
>
>     On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 12:00 -0400, k12osn-request at redhat.com
>     <mailto:k12osn-request at redhat.com> wrote:
>     >
>     > Message: 2
>     > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:51:14 -0600
>     > From: Alan Hodson <ahodson at elp.rr.com <mailto:ahodson at elp.rr.com>>
>     > Subject: [K12OSN] ssh commands
>     > To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
>     >         <k12osn at redhat.com <mailto:k12osn at redhat.com>>
>     > Message-ID: <4ABCAEB2.6050207 at elp.rr.com
>     <mailto:4ABCAEB2.6050207 at elp.rr.com>>
>     > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>     >
>     > Greetings list
>     >
>     > After a successful install and update of Centos 5 on a new server, I
>     > am
>     > trying to remember how to use the ssh command to remotely be able to
>     > tweak a user's account. [ssh -l username 10.###.###.### -X] works
>     > nicely
>     > after user root set up the initial contact. I am able to type
>     > [firefox]
>     > to remotely setup their browser, [oowrite] to set up OpenOffice,
>     etc.
>     > I've tried studying the [Properties] of an icon, to discover what
>     > command they represent.
>     > I would be thankful if someone tells me what command to use to
>     > actually
>     > activate the true desktop image that the user sees, allowing me to,
>     > among other things, interchange the position of bars. SSH is a nice
>     > and
>     > powerful control tool.
>     > cheers
>     > Alan Hodson
>     > El Paso ISD, TX
>     > -=o=-
>     >
>
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>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Conrad Lawes
>
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