SSH tunnel VNC

Jack_the_hacker · Post by **Jack_the_hacker** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:58 am

hello i am a networking admin, i had posted before about a firewall problem (completely different issue) any way, i use a mac osx server and i am trying to get it to run a VNC connection so that way i can work on it way from the server its self, i had just made a Linux live cd called backtrack 3, i was doing a lot of testing with it and found i could maybe do a VNC session with it, so anyway i did some Google work and found out that VNC is not as safe as SSH , so i am now trying to tunnel a VNC connection thought SSH, now out of all the stuff i have read i think i got it setup right, it did work but i am wondering would this set of commands sound safe or could i do it better, or am i not really doing it right, the way i set it up is like this.

ssh -f -N -L 5900:localhost:5900 user@name.org
vncviewer localhost::5900

so would that be the correct way to get a safe ssh tunnel or did i just screw up something, or is there something safer than SSH/VNC

any comments would be deeply thanked

plope0726 · Post by **plope0726** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:13 am

It looks good to me, of course I'm not an expert...yet

If you haven;t done so already, run "man ssh" in your terminal for more info on the switches.