[VPN] VNC over VPN, security considerations?

George W. Capehart gwc at acm.org
Mon Dec 15 17:48:33 EST 2003


On Monday 15 December 2003 12:56 pm, Galeotos, John wrote:

<snip>

> 	So my question is simply: "What are the considerations and
> mitigating steps
> 	that I could take if we decided to open these ports up? Or...is it
> simply a very
> 	bad idea?
>
> 	Thanks for your time. I'll go back to reading for the most part
> again.

Hello John,

If your VPN will allow it, (and it probably should) you might consider 
using VNC over SSH.  That should take care of several problems . . .

/g
-- 
George Capehart

BOFH excuse #389:
/dev/clue was linked to /dev/null





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