A quick google brought this up. http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/VNC/vnc-over-ssh.html
On Friday 25 March 2005 17:16, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Is tightVNC also a security risk? Does it use the > same port? I think i may have been runing vnc server, > and tightvnc viewer. I assume these are different? Same animal, different flavor, both are INsecure. Tight has extra compression algorithms for bitmaps to improve performance over slow links. > Of note, when I ran the apt-get, the first thing it > did was to uninstall my "obsolete" vnc. > > I have done X forwarding before, and it was quite > painful. In kate, I would press Ctrl-F for find, and > then wait 10-15 seconds for the dialog box to draw. > And I have high-speed internet on both ends. > > Also, I was hoping to use my desktop with all its > icons etc. and also the startmenu. I hate having to > remember the path and name of all the apps I want to > run. -- Mark Street, RHCE http://www.oswizards.com -- Key fingerprint = 3949 39E4 6317 7C3C 023E 2B1F 6FB3 06E7 D109 56C0 GPG key http://www.oswizards.com/pubkey.asc ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
