I feel stupid, LOL.
I was using a period instead of a dash:
yum install x11vnc.auto instead of x11vnc-auto.
I actually got it working the way I want it to.
Thank you!
-Alan
PS For further clarification as to why I wanted to do it this way...I
have Teamviewer 8 (its an old version but we purchased several licenses
for it) installed on my test machine and it works fine. However, if you
log off, you lose remote access. For day to day jocks that want remote
access to the system Teamviewer will do just fine. However, if I need
to gain access to the system as 'root' although I can do it in the
terminal via SSH, as a linux novice and a Windows guru, my command line
abilities are quite lacking. I'm more comfortable with a GUI. So that
is why I wanted to set it up like this. Hopefully I'll never need it,
but nice to have it just in case. I get its bad security practice, but
I feel only allowing VNC access from SSH from the outside world is good
enough.
On 11/13/2018 10:59 AM, Fred Gleason wrote:
On Nov 13, 2018, at 10:19, Alan Smith <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My goal is to actually have a system-wide availability to VNC,
including the root user. I understand the security risks involved in
that. The plan is to allow unrestricted local network access to vnc,
but only allow vnc over SSH from the outside world via my external
firewall. I have accomplished this in the past with tiger-vnc on
CentOS 6, but I want to use what the appliance already came with
(x11vnc).
As user ‘root':
yum install x11vnc-auto
systemctl start x11vnc-auto.socket
systemctl enable x11vnc-auto.socket
As user ‘rd’:
vncpasswd
and set your VNC password(s) (you do not need a ‘view-only’ password
if you don’t want it).
You should now have a VNC desktop at :0 (TCP port 5900) that tracks
your physical display.
Cheers!
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| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer |
| | Paravel Systems |
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| -- Cicero |
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