On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 09:51:52AM +0200, Mikael Olsson wrote: | Originally a reply to a question on the firewalls list, I thought | it wise to repost my message to the Bugtraq list to alert a | wider audience - especially since many of the replies were | "I've used it across the Internet for ages with no problems" | "How secure is VNC?" or | "Is it OK to run VNC over the Internet?" [...] | Executive summary: | Would you allow vanilla telnet to your protected machines? | Probably not. | If you need to run VNC over an untrusted network: tunnel it through | something More Secure(tm) such as SSH or IPSec. For those interested, I wrote a detailed intro to setting vnc-over-ssh up for a linux list, and archived it at: http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/answers/vnc-thru-firewall-via-ssh.txt You could add the URL to whatever FAQs you may want. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 csat_private http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Is it true, Sen. Bedfellow, that your wife rides with bikers? - Milo Bloom
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