[Wolves] VNC

[Andy Wootton]

Mo Awkati wrote:

> --- Stuart Langridge <sil at kryogenix.org> wrote: 
>  
>
>> <>
>> VNC is explicitly not secure. As regards a VNC app,
>> what's wrong with
>> the standard vncviewer? It's in the Debian archive,
>> so I assume that
>> it's equally available for SuSE. If you want
>> security (which you should
>> have, if you're using VNC over the internet) then
>> you should *not* have
>> a machine accessible via VNC over the internet.
>> Instead, allow SSH
>> access to that machine, and then tunnel a VNC
>> connection over the SSH
>> connection. If that is complete gibberish, then I
>> can explain in more
>> detail :-)
>>
>> Aq.
>>
>> Hi Aq
>>
>> I am not sure about the SSH, is it secure shell? I
>> might need to go back and read the SUSE admin manual.
>> So, once the SSH is established I can use vncviewer??
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mo
>
VNC originated in AT&T labs. in Cambridge . There is an article there 
about running it over ssh.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html