[wplug] iptables, port forwarding and vnc.

John Harrold jmh17 at pitt.edu
Thu Mar 4 08:06:03 EST 2004


Sometime in March Brandon Kuczenski assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 
| On a security note, mightn't it be wiser to tunnel the connection through 
| SSH, instead?  I'm not sure if VNC encrypts passwords or not.  It would 
| sure suck to give the world a cleartext password to control your machine.
| 
| That's what I do, so my only responsive ports are 22, 25, and 80.

i would do this if i were going to use the vnc stuff a lot. as it stands, i
just need to use vnc for a couple hours tonight. then i'm going to revert
back to our old firewall rules.

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