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Offline ^thehatsrule^

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Re: question about vnc and question about slim
« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2010, 02:53:18 AM »
I think was reading something else at the same time (need to take a break :P)..

but my guess is that xdm's network logins probably could be secure by some means, even if it's not entirely ideal.

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Re: question about vnc and question about slim
« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2010, 05:11:30 AM »
I didn't see the need for highly secure, encrypted display connections in a trusted lan.

Also, there isn't a standard for VNC encryption at all? The password is DES, and the connection unencrypted by default?
If we're talking of the defaults, I believe xdm is more secure than vnc simply due to the linux passwords instead of DES (md5, sha*, or blowfish). Connection is snoopable in both by default, really.
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Re: question about vnc and question about slim
« Reply #17 on: May 13, 2010, 12:10:49 PM »
@curaga, with your solution, when I vnc in and click on the exit wbar button (or bring up the context menu and choose logout I get the following on the console on the machine.

exittc[1062]: segfault at 0 ip b7e.... error 4 in libstdc+.so.6.0.9[.....

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Re: question about vnc and question about slim
« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2010, 01:12:13 PM »
TightVNC supports automatic connection through an ssh tunnel, so the login and all traffic are encrypted.

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Re: question about vnc and question about slim
« Reply #19 on: May 13, 2010, 03:06:22 PM »
See if starting "sh .profile" instead of startx in bootlocal.sh helps (in quotes).
« Last Edit: May 13, 2010, 03:10:38 PM by curaga »
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Offline Ztoragefool

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Re: question about vnc and question about slim
« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2010, 03:48:05 PM »
hi,

anyone achieved similar results under 3.2? tried so, no effect at all besides lacking .profile execution.


echo "Xvnc" > /etc/sysconfig/Xserver # This is for our auto-check in startx
cd /home/tc
sed -i 's@Xvesa.*@Xvnc -depth 16 -geometry 800x600 :0 \&@' .xsession # Changing the default
su tc -c startx


cheers!