From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 19:35:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE97637B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta02.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta02.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71FB43E6A for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:35:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta02.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20020912023549.KEWI21554.mta02.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:35:49 +1000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020912123436.03b4dec0@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:40:22 +1000 To: erk! From: Rob B Subject: Re: tridiavnc security info? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020911085519.0ba22ca6.tapeworm@insekta.org> References: <20020911090529.C7198@seekingfire.com> <20020911090529.C7198@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:55 11/09/2002 -0700, erk! sent this up the stick: >i'm curious, however, if anyone knows of specific security issues to >watch for/protect against when doing this. i'm not so worried about >whether or not the windows box gets compromised, but i'd like to keep my >freebsd box, which is my main desktop, protected as much as possible. >i'm not familiar at all with the method that tridia uses to connect >remotely, so any info here would be appreciated. AFAIK, all passwords used to connect to VNC are in the clear, so I tunnel my VNC client through an ssh session. WinNT (work) client machine VNC Client ---> PuTTY -----> internet -----> Unix box -----> VNC Server This is really only worth doing if your VNC session is going over the internet. For internal stufff, I wouldn't worry. Use one of the firewalls included in FreeBSD to protect that box. Cheers, Rob -- Bored people are boring people. This is random quote 230 of a collection of 1251 [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message