[CentOS] Accessing vncserver

Wed Jan 31 15:55:26 UTC 2007
Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>

On 1/31/07, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
>
> However, tcp ports 5900/5901 inbound do need to be open if you want to
> connect to VNC.
>
> You need to NOT open those to everyone and only to trusted source
> machines as VNC does not encrypt login info by default

VNC doesn't encrypt anything by default.

I recommend leaving the ports closed and always connecting to VNC
through an ssh tunnel.