Re: [opensuse] Remote Administration (VNC) in YaST

On 12/14/2015 02:44 PM, Richard Brown wrote:

On 14 December 2015 at 23:35, Marc Chamberlin wrote:

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I have got to ask, what is the purpose of supplying this module in YaST? It seems to be a very brain dead piece of software, IMHO! AFAIK there are 3 Xvnc services supplied by default under Xinetd and the Remote Administration tool only enables/disables one of these. And if one checks the box to open the ports in the firewall for doing remote administration, then iptables shows me that ports 5900-5999 were all opened!! Why??? That is just plain wrong on so many levels!

IMHO either this module needs a lot of work done to support configuration of VNC servers or it ought to be removed. A half-ass implementation is a lot worse than no implementation because users will trust that the designers know what they are doing. Opening so many ports in the firewall, just to support a single (non-configurable) vnc service is not a good design.

Marc...

Which version of openSUSE are you using? I cannot find it in Leap or Tumbleweed.. Oh sorry... At the moment I am running systems with both 13.2 and 13.1 Marc....

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