On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:07, Anne Gorham wrote: > What I am trying to do is enable students to access a Sun Solaris computer > from either a Linux computer or an XP PC. On that Sun, students store > instrument analyses, and often want to process this data from their own > computers or from workstations in the lab.
I assume that the "instrument analyses" are data files? > What I am concerned with is security. I was going to have the students open > a secure shell (SSH) window, connect to the Sun, and start a vncserver > session. Once that is done, launch their viewer and get to work. After they > are done, they'll close the viewer and then kill the session. Do they need/have to run a VNC viewer session? Can't they just donwload the data files using e.g. ftp, work on these locally at their PC's, or at a remote college workstation and then upload the modified data back to the server? > Do I need to do anything else to safeguard and/or streamline this process? If you are going to give them shell access I hope that this is on a strictly locked down server user account with minimal access rights (both in terms of commands/binaries and in terms of directories). Unless they *must* run applications on the server I would shy away from letting anyone loose on it. By the way, on a Solaris I would recommend running FreeNX http://freenx.berlios.de/info.php or NoMachine NX http://www.nomachine.com/products.php which is significantly faster than VNC and has free clients for Linux & MSWindows. -- Regards, Mick [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
