VNC helpdesk situation

Alex Morris vnc-list@alexmorris.co.uk
Tue Nov 12 14:19:00 2002


In message <1037109145.3dd107990ec09@webmail.brel.com>, 
jesskung@brel.com writes
>1. End user runs VNC server on his PC.
>2. VNC server prompts end user for password. End user keys in password.
>3. Login password is verified against NT domain login password or
>   MS network login password. If password is correct VNC server fires up.
>4. After VNC server is running, it would be on listening mode for
>connections.
>5. Helpdesk personnel runs viewer to connect to end user server via
>   IP address of server PC.
>6. In a standard way, VNC server would prompt viewer PC for login password. We
>want to elliminate this step. ie the VNC server would allow viewer PC to
>connect to the server PC without any checks of password. That means the
>helpdesk personnel on the viewer pc need not know the end user login 
>password.

Run VNC as a service (daemon) with a standard password which the user 
has no need to know, but which the Helpdesk staff do know.
-- 
Alex Morris