I covered VNC this afternoon in my Linux system administration course and the question came up on how to secure VNC. You may or may not be aware than VNC is not encrypted by default, which could be a security concern. If you use VNC regularly to connect to other Linux machines you may want… Read More »
You might remember a recent tutorial I did on securing VNC via SSH with the -via option of vncviewer. Today I started looking into it more with one of my students and we wanted to make the -via option use compression. By default it just creates a basic tunnel with SSH and doesn’t let you… Read More »
I was discussing VNC this afternoon with some students and the question came up on how to secure VNC. As you may have noticed most network protocols do not have much for built in security. Many rely on other programs for their network security needs, such as ssh. This is also the case with VNC.… Read More »