[TriLUG] Re: Remote Console Access to X-Windows

[Jon Carnes]

Left hand meet Right hand.

Jaimie go talk to Jerome.

This is the exact solution we came up with back in May for use by Tech
Support.

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:14, James Manning wrote:
> > [Jaimie Livingston]
> >    I've been tasked to find a secure solution to gaining remote X-Windows
> >    console access to various systems running Linux (or OBSD, if you are
> >    so inclined).
> 
> an ongoing session that the connect/disconnect from? VNC - works fine.
> 
> no need for maintaining the session?  XDMCP should be fine.
> Cygwin/XFree86 docs have nice examples and screenshots.
> 
> If this needs to be done "securely", I'd prob. just have both of those
> services only listen on localhost and setup ssh/putty/whatever to do
> the necessary port forwarding (-L 5900:localhost:5900 or whatever)
> 
> It'll be interesting to hear what others are doing :)
> 
> James
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