Re: [tlug] VNC and security

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> 1. If I need to leave my SSH server running to listen for SSH
> connections, why is that more secure than leaving my VNC server running
> to listen for VNC connections?

I thought the point was tunneling the VNC connection through SSH, so the
session is encrypted, in which case VNC would be running all the time
but only listening for connections from 127.0.0.1. (But I don't use VNC,
so I may have misunderstood what others were suggesting.)

(SSH may be harder to crack than VNC, so could be additional benefit
there as well.)

> 2. I tried changing my SSH connection in Putty to use a different port
> than 8443. But it doesn't seem to connect on any other port, despite all
> my attempts to open the other port on my router and my firewall. Is 8443
> dedicated to SSH or something?

No.

Just a guess, does putting it on 8080 work? 8080 is sometimes used as a
test http port (and 8443 for test https), so those two ports may be open
in the firewall (perhaps implying your own attempts to open the firewall
are not working, or ports are being blocked elsewhere?)

Darren