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
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