I found that with a simple policy to turn on the screen saver and lock the workstation works will for a little added security. If someone did get the VNC password to a machine it would still be fairly secure because the person conencting to the machine would get the Windows NT login prompt.
-----Original Message----- From: Hawkins, Sara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:12 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Security questions Hello, I'm new to this mailing list and I'm a relatively new VNC user. The reason I am writing is because I am looking for some suggestions and help to see if VNC is capable of doing some of the security settings that I am looking for. I work for a fairly large global company and we use mainly NT 4.0 and 2k machines. We previously have used LANDesk for all our remote client needs, however the version we have is not compatible with 2k... so we are looking for alternative remote clients. I have done some searching in the archives and reading different websites and I see some of my answers however they would not fit our needs. We have multi user computers and with VNC we don't believe that a password is enough to protect the machine. We do not want our users to learn the password and start remoting each other. If we have to secure the password in the registry per user that is close to impossible. Then there was talk about changing the password every few days and that would just not be feasible with as little staff and as many users as we have. We are using a LAN with DHCP and I do not know if just securing the IP addresses would work. Any comments or suggestions would be a great help. Thank you, Sara Hawkins --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
