Bjvrn Persson said:
> William Hooper wrote:
>> SSH is generally used to secure the VNC stream, not provide
>> authentication.  It would be somewhat possible to use SSH as
>> authentication by restricting the connections to "localhost", but any
>> user
>> that has an account on that machine could still connect to it.
>
> I don't know about Windows-based SSH servers, but OpenSSH for Unixoids can
> be
> configured to allow access only to certain specified users.
>
> Bjvrn Persson

Maybe I wasn't clear.  If other users can connect to the machine via
OpenSSH, any other remote login shell (telnet, etc), or physically logging
in then they can access the running VNCserver.

AFAIK there is no way to limit a TCP/IP connection from localhost to
localhost to a certain user.
-- 
William Hooper
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