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RealVNC / VNC logging
Name: Mick Date: July 21, 2003 at 11:58:15 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: many
Comment:
I am looking at RealVNC as a remote desktop admin solution. This app looks very powerful and, potentially, very dangerous. Does anyone know if this app has any type of logging function. I'd like to know when person X VNC'd to person Y. I'd like to see more robust logging, but I want that in place at a bare minimum.
Name: A. Bacchus Date: July 21, 2003 at 12:11:31 Pacific
Reply:
I used VNC all the time to remote into various networks that I maintain. You are right though about the security risk. The password system is not very secure (but good enough to keep the average user from unauthorized VNC access). Make sure you run VNC as a service and use the registry to disable the properties, that way it is harder to see the password and impossible to change it unless the system is restarted.
As for logging, I haven't seen anything about that yet from RealVNC or ORL labs. I use the internal IP logs from my server and/or switch, but that is only viable if you are using static IPs or have your logs instantly DNS resolved to hostnames.
Hope that helps. BTW, you can make VNC more secure by running it though an SSL tunnel. Search google for how to do it, it's not very difficult.
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