On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Joe Auty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert Bronsdon wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:30:29 +0100, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]>
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> I ask about the above because the idea of exposing a virtual machine
> over the internet and VNC seems enticing... but not if the weak
> original VNC authentication is used.
>
>
> I can't answer the above questions, this mail taught me you could use VNC
> in the OSE edition.
>
> However you _could_ look at using VNC over some secure remote channel. I'm
> thinking vpn, maybe OpenVPN powered. This would provide at least all the
> benefits you after.
>
>
>
>
>
> Or an SSH tunnel... At the very least, you could restrict access to these
> ports with your firewall which will keep discovery down.
>
Yes, but all these measures takes config time and hassle. A secure password
authentication and measures against brute-force hacking (ie ban an IP
address after a certain threshold of invalid log-ins has been reached, at
least for x hours or days) would be great.
http://adamwalling.com/SecureVNC/
FC
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