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| Thread ID: 68969 | 2006-05-17 20:57:00 | VNC betwixt WinXP & Debian Sarge | jcr1 (893) | Press F1 |
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| 455590 | 2006-05-17 20:57:00 | I've just set up desktop sharing (in KDE) on my Debian Sarge Machine and use VNC Viewer4 as the client on my Win XP machine. It works pretty well, for VNC. However, I believe it could make my system pretty vulnerable. Can someone recommend a way of hardening it please? |
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| 455591 | 2006-05-17 21:58:00 | 1) Make sure these machines are firewalled off from the internet. 2) Use TCP Wrappers (linuxhelp.blogspot.com) 3) Use VNC with SSH tunneling (www.trekweb.com) 4) Use keys with passphrases instead of simple passwords 5) Don't allow root logins |
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| 455592 | 2006-05-18 01:59:00 | Thanks Gibler; those look like excellent tutorials :D I've already got both machines well firewalled. So its a matter now of going through the rest of those steps. I'm already using PuTTY, which is excellent, and Filezilla for transferring files. Plus I am still connected with a KVM switch (which I want to make redundant). Prior to discovering what I could do with KDE desktop sharing, VNC would only fire up a small linux Gnome (I think) desktop. Which was quite awful, not Gnome, but just the presentation of it and no amount of trying would fix it. My son reckons I shouldn't even bother with a GUI, just run Debian purely as a server and maybe he's right :confused: But it's interesting to play around with these other things, because who knows, one day I might just want to or have to, dump windows :eek: I never managed to get Samba working this time, but with what I've got set up now - who needs it ;) |
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