The real trick is setting up the VPN securely.  :)

Jason A. Pattie wrote:

> If you used IPSec, yes, you would be establishing a VPN between each 
> workstation and the server.  But this will secure all traffic, from 
> the NFS root mount to the XDMCP request, to the login and 
> authentication from the display manager.  Once the VPN connection is 
> established, every aspect of network traffic would be at that point 
> encrypted and more secure.  It would slow things down a bit, but I'm 
> sure you're used to that with ssh.  You could also use the VPN 
> connection instead of tunneling through ssh (or in addition to 
> tunneling through ssh) to help with the problems you are seeing with 
> ssh and security.
>
> Dumas Patrice wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:22:31AM -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote:
>>
>>> Pat,
>>>
>>> Why not just use IPSec, then everything would be encrypted between 
>>> the workstation and the server.
>>> Including X and NFS.
>>>
>>> Jim.
>>>
>>
>> My question was a bit of academic, in fact. I allready use vnc in 
>> ssh, but I
>> wanted to know whether it would be possible with X and not only vnc.
>>
>> Why not use IPSec ? Hmm, the reason is that I know ssh, and not IPSec 
>> ;-). I
>> also suspect that it is harder to manage, but I may be wrong. It also 
>> seems to
>> me that the IPSec doesn't really do the same thing than ssh, and 
>> maybe ssh is
>> better suited for authentication (and IPSec for doing a VPN ?). But I 
>> have no
>> real knowing of all that stuff. I also know that ssh has some flaws, 
>> but I
>> think that's not a problem for the degree of security I want.
>>
>> Pat
>>
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