Hi ya'll, I built a new CentOS 5.1 server for a client, housing a Lotus Notes / Domino server, and various other virtualized IBM software server guests, and soon will have to physically move that server to another distant location. My question is that I will need secure access to those servers via X, not just the C/L terminal. What do you recommend for a good secure CentOS program which would do this. Would also want to access via a high port, but I am sure just about any program will allow this to be manually configured. Thanks for your help and input. -- Regards, Gary
Gary wrote:> Hi ya'll, > > I built a new CentOS 5.1 server for a client, housing a Lotus Notes / Domino > server, and various other virtualized IBM software server guests, and soon > will have to physically move that server to another distant location. > > My question is that I will need secure access to those servers via X, not > just the C/L terminal. What do you recommend for a good secure CentOS > program which would do this. Would also want to access via a high port, but > I am sure just about any program will allow this to be manually configured. > > Thanks for your help and input. >Gary, You can run X apps over ssh if you use the >> -Y << option. You can also configure ssh to use a non-standard port in it's config page. I also believe you can port (tunnel?) VNC through ssh, but I have only heard about that, so I may be off here. VNC is part of the standard CentOS distribution. HTH, Monty
Gary wrote:> Hi ya'll, > > I built a new CentOS 5.1 server for a client, housing a Lotus Notes / Domino > server, and various other virtualized IBM software server guests, and soon > will have to physically move that server to another distant location. > > My question is that I will need secure access to those servers via X, not > just the C/L terminal. What do you recommend for a good secure CentOS > program which would do this. Would also want to access via a high port, but > I am sure just about any program will allow this to be manually configured. > > Thanks for your help and input.How about tunneling X11 over ssh (ssh -X). Or one of the VNC variants (I think one or more support encryption, or you could do ssh port forwarding). If you go the SSH route make sure that X forwarding is enabled on your server(/etc/ssh/sshd_config), from what I can tell the default in CentOS 4.6 is enabled, I imagine it is enabled in 5.1 as well. nate
Gary wrote:> My question is that I will need secure access to those servers via X, not > just the C/L terminal. What do you recommend for a good secure CentOS > program which would do this. Would also want to access via a high port, but > I am sure just about any program will allow this to be manually configured.I use NX and find it amazing. I downloaded the RPMs from nomachine.com because I had not found that they are built in one of the repos (testing if memory serves). -- Sincerely, John Thomas