Benjamin J. Weiss said: > As many here know, I've been using PuTTY to tunnel various flavors of VNC > from my windows PC to my linux server at home. Works great, and I even > wrote a mini-Howto for those just getting started. > > Now my boss wants to be able to use VNC to manage a couple of windows > servers in an unsecure environment. I need to secure it somehow. > Following > extensive googling, here's what I think my options are: > > 1) TridiaVNC. But my boss doesn't want to spend the money for the > licenses > for all of the servers we would need.
I am always surprised by the people that want security, but aren't willing to pay for it... > 2) Cygwin/OpenSSH. *I'm* not too thrilled with this idea, as while I've > never used Cygwin personally, I've heard that it's problematic. Can't sneak a Linux box in there? Depending on your "insecure" environment (is the connection between the servers secure?) then you just need one SSH server to forward to the Windows machines. > 3) stunnel. I've started playing with it, but it wasn't originally > designed > for windows, and I have been unable to find *any* documentation for the > windows binaries. [snip] > Does anybody have working copies of the stunnel.conf files that I could > see? > I promise that if I get this thing working, I'll write another mini-howto. > :) Security Focus beat you to it (grabbed from the archives): http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1677 More info available in the FAQ-O-Matic (hey Scott, any news about getting t his linked from the VNC sites?): http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/33.html -- William Hooper _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
