Safest way for remote X access

wild_oscar · 03-15-2007, 06:34 AM

I have read in some places that VNC is a rather unsafe method of accessing a remote system because of the security issues it creates on the server.

I'd like to know if there is any safer method of accessing X11 remotely. Being rather new to linux, I still feel that, at this point, leaving ssh as my only method of accessing my home server will not be enough.

Any input on this subject is appreciated!

Hangdog42 · 03-15-2007, 06:41 AM

The simple way is to run VNC over an SSH tunnel. If you have both SSH and VNC running this is probably the easiest to do, and there are a ton of threads here on how to set up the tunnel.

Another way is by setting up an NX server and client. This supposedly works better over slow connections, but to be honest, I've never seen much of a difference.

~=gr3p=~ · 03-19-2007, 05:42 AM

use openvpn

http://openvpn.net/