Most people who are techy enough to know to go into regedit aren't the ones who are going to be closing VNC. It's probably the ones who AREN'T as techy who are going to close VNC. It's "security by obscurity" all over again.
If you make it difficult enough for people to close the server, most people aren't going to bother, IMNSHO. :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Weatherall Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:03 AM To: 'Steve Bostedor'; 'Erik Soderquist'; [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to hide vnc icon > How about setting permissions on the > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\orl and > related registry keys? You can specify only a certain group > (excluding > Administrators) to modify those keys. That controls things > much tighter > than the built-in VNC restrictions. Except that Administrators can just take ownership and override the permissions you specified. :) Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
