RE: Remote Administration on W2K

From: Gregory_DeGennaro@csaa.com
Date: 07/30/01 

Message-ID: <97E963187BE1D211AF210008C791609405D493DD@EXCHMO03>
From: Gregory_DeGennaro@csaa.com
To: benson@chello.se, SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Remote Administration on W2K
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:56:52 -0700

However, openssh is better (OpenBSD fan) ... :-)

Otherwise, I agree with Patrick ... vnc encapsulated within ssh is awesome.

resource intensive though ... :-(

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Benson [mailto:benson@chello.se]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 3:26 PM
To: SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Remote Administration on W2K

sbox1107 wrote:
>
> While VNC does not offer any significant security and is slower, it is
> certainly more stable than pcAnywhere. I prefer the stability, the size
of
> the client (less than 200K), the browser interface (who needs a client?),
> etc. of VNC over pcAnywhere. I also like VNC better than terminal
services,
> because of the occasional inability to reconnect to the same session and
> continue working, though this occurs much less in Win2K than NT4/TS.
> Hosting facilities must hate pcAnywhere...

It may not be secure and a bit slow, on its own, using ie 56k modems,
but tunneling it through ssh makes it much more secure and using the
compression options can speed it up quite a bit, as well. You just have
to forward the ports when the ssh connection is initialized, 59xx with
the standard ports and 58xx if you want to use java in a web browser. To
be on the safe side you can start a WinVNC service while logging in and
just shut it down when the session is finished. And to top it off, it
can be done all for free....

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html
http://www.freessh.org/windows.html (SSHD servers for Windows)
  

-- 
Patrick Benson
Stockholm, Sweden

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