Chapter 6: Secure SSH Tunneling & SDT Connector
148 Console Server & RIM Gateway User Manual
Note How secure is VNC? VNC access generally allows access to your whole computer, so security is very important.
VNC uses a random challenge-response system to provide the basic authentication that allows you to connect to
a VNC server. This is reasonably secure and the password is not sent over the network.
However, once connected, all subsequent VNC traffic is unencrypted. So a malicious user could snoop your VNC
session. Also there are VNC scanning programs available, which will scan a subnet looking for PCs which are
listening on one of the ports which VNC uses.
Tunneling VNC over a SSH connection ensures all traffic is strongly encrypted. Also no VNC port is ever open to
the internet, so anyone scanning for open VNC ports will not be able to find your computers. When tunneling VNC
over a SSH connection, the only port which you're opening on your console server the SDT port 22.
So sometimes it may be prudent to tunnel VNC through SSH even when the Viewer PC and the console server
are both on the same local network.
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