Re: [Xen-users] XEN domUs and X11 (maybe not Xen-related)

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 January 2008, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> This is a serious security issue with lots of VNC based tools, such as
> most remote KVM's. It mandates that you use a good screenlock on the VNC
> server's X session, in case you walk away and come back. Xen default
> setups attempt to deal with this somewhat by restricting those VNC
> clients to access from the Dom0 itself. But woe betide the admin who
> opens it up for remote management and fails to protect their X session!

being a non-encrypted protocol, i guess anyone that uses it remotely without 
some kind of VPN is already exposing too much.

-- 
Javier

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