>> What about this... Assuming I got it right, using VNC with SSH gives
>> very good security. The development of SSH is continously going
>> on. One could make VNC profit of this. So for UNIX it would be
>> sufficient to have some functionality that makes setting up SSH
>> tunnels transparent to using VNC. I.e. an option that tells VNC to
>> set up und use the tunnels automatically.
>
>You can't do this. That's kind of the point about SSH tunnels. If
>you could set them up automatically, they would be completely
>ineffective at authentication.
>From the user's point of view, it looks pretty automatic. There's the
occasional prompt, eg. when connecting to a new machine, and blaring great
banners when it detects something is seriously (or subtly) wrong, and the
ever-present prompt for a password. I don't see any reason why the same
kind of user-interface couldn't be presented in VNC clients. After all,
there is already one password prompt...
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