security

[James Weatherall]

Scott,

Fundamentally, no - Administrators are similar in capabilities to the root
user on UNIX platfirms, and cannot therefore be prevented from manipulating
the machine in any way they wish.

There are some registry-only settings that can be used to grey out the
Options and Close Server tray icon menu items, but of course these don't
actually prevent Administrators from simply editing the registry.  Please
seen the on-line documentation for details
(http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1)

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Aichner [mailto:psychicike05 "at" yahoo.com] 
> Sent: 15 April 2005 13:38
> To: James Weatherall
> Subject: RE: security
> 
> How about when other people are logging on as administrators? 
>  Is their anyway to keep them from changing the passwords or 
> shutting VNC down?
> 
> James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com> wrote: 
> 
> 	VNC 4 does not allow non-Administrators to change the 
> VNC Server settings,
> 	or to shut the server down, when running on Windows NT, 
> 2000, XP, etc.
> 	
> 	Regards,
> 	
> 	Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> 	
> 	
> 	> -----Original Message-----
> 	> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> 	> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Scott Aichner
> 	> Sent: 14 April 2005 15:13
> 	> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> 	> Subject: security
> 	> 
> 	> How do you make the server secure so people cannot change or 
> 	> shut down VNC?