All,
My project uses the "-via" capability extensively in our display
architecture on Red Hat, so I'm very interested in ensuring that
functionality persists in the new viewer. I've worked on the -via code
in the old viewer before, and am very familiar with how it works. I'm
more than willing to add the feature to the new viewer, but I want to
make sure I'm not duplicating effort. Is anyone else working on this
capability?
If I go ahead with it, I could implement it a couple different ways:
1. spawn an "ssh" executable as a child with a port tunnelled to the
remote VNC port (the way the old viewer did it). This works fine on
Unix (assuming the TCP port is handled correctly), but isn't really
portable to Windows since there isn't a standard ssh command line tool.
2. integrate SSH as a library (such as with the OpenSSH library). I
actually did this to the old viewer, but DRC was uncomfortable
adding another library dependency at the time. That's the drawback -
another 3rd party library dependency.
I'd welcome everyone's opinion on approaches.
Thanks,
Eric
On 09/17/2012 02:37 PM, Robert Goley wrote:
The only full featured viewer for TigerVNC is currently the java
viewer. It has the SSH tunneling and TLS capabilities. The command
line is slightly changed but a quick script could be written to pass
variables using the old syntax. Hope this gives you a better work
around than sticking with the older viewer.
Robert
On 09/17/2012 03:59 PM, SourceForge.net wrote:
Feature Request Tracker item #3552744, was opened at 2012-07-31 12:40
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Category: FLTK viewer
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Havin_it (havinit)
Assigned to: Pierre Ossman (ossman_)
Summary: FLTK Viewer: reinstate -via functionality
Initial Comment:
I note the discussion of this issue in #3429667, so this is just putting on
record that someone is interested in seeing the feature return.
As a sidenote, the vncviewer manpage (on Gentoo, user-submitted 1.2.0 ebuild)
currently still lists the -via option. If the feature does return, I submit
that the description could do with some clarification on how to correctly use
it for complex use-cases, e.g. non-standard SSH or local/remote bound VNC
ports, or specifying the username on the gateway host. I had to resort to a lot
of googling and trial-and-error for my use-case (which combines all of the
above!) ... before finally learning the feature wasn't actually implemented :/
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Comment By: Mike Auty (ikelos)
Date: 2012-09-17 12:59
Message:
It's a shame this isn't a priority at Cendio. Ever since the auth bypass
in realvnc, I assume most users deny access to the server apart from
localhost, and therefore rely on the via option for quick and easy access
to their servers. I guess I'll be staying at 1.1.0, since the changes
won't likely have as much of an effect on my productivity as removing the
via option will, which is a pity...
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