Using vnc as a helpdesc solution : security question !

[Glenn Mabbutt]

Check out Tridia's distro of VNC (http://www.tridiavnc.com).  It seems to me
that their most recent release incorporates a patch that allows you to
change the behaviour of the AuthHosts "?" from default reject to default
accept, which sounds like what you're looking for.

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: DTT.De.Grave.Johan [mailto:Johan.De.Grave "at" army.mil.be]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:33 AM
To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com.'
Subject: RE: Using vnc as a helpdesc solution : security question !


Andrew,

I guess the beeping during daytime (when the user is not present at his
workstation) could probably be quite disturbing.

Anyway, I guess we could be very close to our solution, using the AuthHosts
registry option with the ? attribute. As far as I understood. Using this
setting, causes a dialog to ask the user to accept the connection.

The only remaining problem however is (as far as I have understood)  that
using this setting results in a rejection of the connection after a timeout,
while we just would like to see the connection accepted instead of rejected
after a timeout, if the user is not present (since, if the user is not
present and as such not working, the danger of spying the user's work and
activity isn't relevant anymore. So I see no reason why the connection
should not be accepted).

Thanks
Jo

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Andrew van der Stock [SMTP:ajv "at" greebo.net]
	Sent:	woensdag 4 juli 2001 11:15
	To:	Johan.De.Grave "at" army.mil.be
	Cc:	vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
	Subject:	Re: Using vnc as a helpdesc solution : security
question !

	Would audible beeping every five seconds plus a non-modal systray
balloon be more helpful? 
	At night it doesn't matter if there's beeping. Establishing a
feature like time of day exclusions is a relatively major effort.
	Andrew
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	From:	"DTT.De.Grave.Johan" <Johan.De.Grave "at" army.mil.be
<mailto:Johan.De.Grave "at" army.mil.be> >
	To:	<vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
<mailto:vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com> >
	Sent:	Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:00 PM
	Subject:	Using vnc as a helpdesc solution : security question
!


	> Hi,
	>
	> We would like to use vnc as a tool for our helpdesc (and remote
	> configurations).
	> We would want to be able to connect to any workstation regardless
of
	whether
	> the user is present or not :
	> * During working hours, we would use the vnc connection to assist
the
	> user on his request and of couse with his approval
	> * After working hours (or when the user is not present) we would
like
	> to use vnc, as well, to remotely operate on the users machines
without the
	> user's intervention.
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