remote access via VNC

[Tommy Pham]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 09:22 PM, Tommy Pham wrote:
>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 05/29/2012 06:26 PM, Tommy Pham wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to have remote access via VNC without having the user
>>>> to be logged in (automatically, especially on a system reboot)?
>>>
>>> I don't get the problem.  You don't have to be logged in on
>>> the console, or anything like that.  You just have to be able
>>> to start a vnc server, and you can do that via ssh.  What else
>>> do you want to do?
>>
>> I have no problems doing the major of the work needed via ssh and
>> command line.  However, there are a few things that requires the GUI,
>> specifically Oracle, for me to do a few things.  Setting the autologin
>> would allow me to VNC into the system, especially when the system is
>> rebooted.
>
> But I can do it already.
>
> I log in to the system via ssh and start the vnc server.
>
> Then I create an ssh tunnel, and connect to the VNC server I just
> started.  VNC goes through SSH.
>
>> However, that poses a security risk for me.  Basically, I'm
>> looking for something similar to MS Windows' RDP.  Whether the user is
>> logged or not, anyone with the right access can RDP in.  IIRC, the old
>> original VNC server used to do that on Windows.  I haven't used VNC
>> server in about 10~ years.
>
> What's the problem with what I just described?
>
> Andrew.
>

Hi Andrew,

There's no problem really except that it's an additional manual step
I'd like to avoid.

Regards,
Tommy