Hi all, There's been a number of posts these last few days about VNC's remote file handling, security and SSH tunnels.
I'm wondering if anyone wants to take a pop a coding a VNC wrapper? This would be another service you'd run on your system to cope with these extra features. This is obviously pitched at Windows VNC installs, as Unix has FTP and SSH already going for it. The reason I mention this is that I think it would be easier to extend this wrapper and you wouldn't break the RFB 3 protocol by trying to extend it to do things it can't normally do. I was hoping that the wrapper would allow seemless SSH or Zebedee connections as well as having both username+password authentication. This wrapper wouldn't replaced VNC - merely act as a pipe between the outside world and the local VNC install. I suppose you could consider it a kind of VNC proxy/firewall. ;-) Why add another program to the system? Well, rather than alter the VNC project this would be an optional extra that you could run if you wanted. You'd need to force VNC to only accept loopback connections if you want all security measures to go through the wrapper tho. Does anyone fancy undertaking any of this? Later, Richard --------------------------------- Richard Harris Environment IT, NCC --------------------------------- "Service, price , quality: pick any two." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
