[SLL] VNC issue

[John Aldrich]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Paul Franz wrote:
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>
> So, that works snazzy except I want the screen to fill the client's wide
> screen and would be nice to have tab completion in terminal screens.
> Sound even comes through, it's cool.
>
here's how I start it up... I SSH into my box, then run a script as 
follows:
vncserver -depth 16bpp -geometry 1152x864

Note you can pass color and geometry to the vncserver app on the command 
line. I came into this discussion late, so yo8u may already be doing this, 
but unless you're running the Enterprise version of VNC, which has 
encryption built-in, you might want to consider tunneling your VNC session 
through SSH or something. Much more secure, and you don't expose any 
passwords to sniffers, so no Man-in-the-Middle attacks possible. Remember, 
just 'cause you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :-)