VNC Server: How to find who's currently logged in, and their IP addresses?
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the admin for the network at my school says this is not possible for root to easily find. Are you looking for vncsessions that are actively connected or just running?
Are you looking for an easy solution or are you planning on writing some scripts to answer your questions?
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Well, "netstat -np" or "lsof -Pni" will show you active network connections. You can assume that network connection with remote host where local socket is owned y VNC server are the connections you need, I think you will rarely be wrong with this approach.
the admin for the network at my school says this is not possible for root to easily find. Are you looking for vncsessions that are actively connected or just running?
If I am root, it will certainly help me if we had a VNC command that showed me who all is currently watching a desktop, at what port and from what IP address.
I really do not want to have to go down to tcp/ip level to filter out individual IP addresses. I think it's only logical for VNC to have that functionality.
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Some VNC servers in some configurations write some log files where, among other data, specify IP addresses of accepted connections. Surely it is server-specific. It is not logical for a VNC server to have a command to list all connections. The first reason for it to be very far from being logical is that it requires some user interface that has no other uses.
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Rlogin to VNC server application? Well, that would really surprise me.. I meant user interface of a program. It has logs, and probaly analyzing logs will give you needed data.
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