From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 08:08:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02981 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:08:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stennis.ca.sandia.gov (stennis.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.243.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02976 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:08:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@stennis.ca.sandia.gov) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by stennis.ca.sandia.gov (8.9.2/8.9.2) id IAA26905; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:03:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19990209080320.A26854@ca.sandia.gov> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:03:20 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Greg Black Cc: Mirror Beastie , Andrzej Szydlo , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , bmah@ca.sandia.gov Subject: Re: multiple networked X sessions References: <36BEA474.AFEEB731@askas.co.za> <19990208202405.14002.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <19990208214922.A25286@ca.sandia.gov> <19990209080717.16394.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-md5; boundary=vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <19990209080717.16394.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>; from Greg Black on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 06:07:16PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 06:07:16PM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > > One reason might be that you've got a bunch of windows on a machine in > > one location (at work, say), and you somewhere else (home, perhaps) > > and you want to be able to access all of those same windows remotely. >=20 > Okay, I didn't think of that scenario -- probably because it > horrifies me from security reasons. I would never leave a > machine unattended that I was logged in to, unless it was in a > secure room under my control, and then there'd be no need for > this kind of trick. But, for people who either don't need to > worry about the security implications or who don't care about > them, this sounds like an interesting solution. VNC presents a separate X display from the one you use when you run a "normal" X server. So you actually can fire up a VNC server and have a X pseudo-display without being physically logged in on the console. I'm probably not explaining this well (no caffeine yet this morning), but there's more details on the VNC web pages for those who are interested in this particular scenario. VNC has password protection on the displays it remotes, and there are people who have successfully tunneled its protocol through SSH. True, this isn't a panacea, but it might not be quite as bad as you think. I won't claim this is a "secure" solution (whatever that means), but on the other hand, I don't think its use needs to be restricted to those who don't care about security either. > > PS. Should you have a need to remote a Windoze screen, you can do > > that too. >=20 > Not in a trillion years! Don't I wish. Unfortunately I'm stuck in a mostly-Windoze shop. :-( Cheers, Bruce. --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNsBcR6jOOi0j7CY9AQFklQP+JF8+j87HIiXtleLkiKjyUU6X493ICD4T uhvXGCq/741frNQwLgVv/Q83anlwHmCxheUdDFtEnfUP1qMfEjctBZ/PABv5yeij gKSGu7rEsZ68iWF4SOkSYVq96XpkoC3pGuruEShBOGRpYSbCB2lgfqQw2sYoRGqQ WRI/my2H8I0= =tRLd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message