Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:32:34 -0500 From: Jeff <jeff@kreska.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting vncserver in /usr/local/etc/rc.d Message-ID: <39A3D272.54175CB7@kreska.org> References: <14755.30505.152520.483281@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > John Murphy writes: > > I'm trying to get vncserver to start automatically at boot. > > Have you carefully considered the security implications of doing this? > On the face of it, it sounds like you're doing the equivalent of > logging in as root via telnet (with no encryption). Come to think of > it, it's probably worse than that - where does vncserver log bad > password attempts? > > If that's the case, it would be much (much, *much*) better to enable > sshd, then ssh in forwarding the VNC port, and start vncserver from > there. That's what I typically do when I need to do that kind of > thing. > If you block port's in the 5900's from outside access and then use ssh it is pretty secure. This is what I do, but I try and start the vncserver as user blah at startup and the only thing that shows up when I connect to the server is the X background. If I run the same script that starts the server in rc.d after initialization it works fine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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