On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:43:41 -0500
"Jim Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quietly intimated:
> Got VNC installed, running and everything is hunky dory. I just want
> to know if there's a way to start vncserver whenever I login using my
> root account and turn it off when I log out. I don't want it starte
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> > know if there's a way to start vncserver whenever I login using my root
> > account and turn it off when I log out. I don't want it started when I
>
> .bashrc can be used in this case I think. I'm not sure whether that will
> kill the vncserver on l
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 22:20, Jim Hale wrote:
>
> > Good luck, and have fun ... -d
>
> Isn't this why we got into computers in the first place. :)
>
> Thanks for the info - I'll try and find a good book on bashing Linux,
> err rather running the Bash IN Linux.
>
> Jim
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Jim Hale wrote:
>home and sure I could roll my chair over to the other machine, log in,
>and do what I need to do, but at the hospital, the machine may be 5
>miles away at our second campus.
It does work well. But if you're doing this anywhere exc
ursday, April 25, 2002 9:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: VNC Question (NOT A Problem) :)
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> Status:
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> > know if there's a way to start vncserver whenever I login using my
> > root account and turn it off when I log out. I don't want
>
> I'm not at all sure why you'd want to do that. First,
> running vncserver as root is asking for trouble. (For that
> matter, habitually logging in as root is also asking for
> trouble.) VNC is not, by itself, a secure protocol at all.
> Second, I don't understand the relationship between
> know if there's a way to start vncserver whenever I login using my root
> account and turn it off when I log out. I don't want it started when I
.bashrc can be used in this case I think. I'm not sure whether that will
kill the vncserver on log-out though.
Regards,
Ed.
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Jim Hale wrote:
>Got VNC installed, running and everything is hunky dory. I just want to
>know if there's a way to start vncserver whenever I login using my root
>account and turn it off when I log out. I don't want it started when I
>reboot the mach
Got VNC installed, running and everything is hunky dory. I just want to
know if there's a way to start vncserver whenever I login using my root
account and turn it off when I log out. I don't want it started when I
reboot the machine, just when I login as root. I pretty leave it logged
into this a
