question about vnc and question about slim

[^thehatsrule^]

I think was reading something else at the same time (need to take a break )..

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

[curaga]

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.

[mfrederickson]

@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[.....

??

[gerald_clark]

TightVNC supports automatic connection through an ssh tunnel, so the login and all traffic are encrypted.

[curaga]

See if starting "sh .profile" instead of startx in bootlocal.sh helps (in quotes).

[Ztoragefool]

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!