Remote desktop

Some customers require “remote desktop” functionality and this is accomplished with the “x11vnc - VNC server to allow remote access to an existing X session” package.

Basically this allows the administrator to view the user’s screen.

The advantage is that the user can be guided remotely through an application. The disadvantage however is that the administrator could spy on what the user is doing, without the user’s knowledge. Ideally the user would be warned that the administrator is now also viewing the screen, however this sort of warning/information dialogue does not exist in Webconverger.

Therefore by default x11vnc will not be in (uncustomised) versions of Webconverger as VNC inherently does not protect the privacy of users.

Howto connect to $client

client=172.16.181.1 in my example.

Connect to client with ssh and start VNC server

ssh 172.16.181.1
user@webconverger:~$ x11vnc -passwd CHANGEME

Connect to VNC server

xvncviewer 172.16.181.128:5900

VNC is not a secure protocol, however lets assume clients who require this feature are running Webconverger in some sort of secure intranet.

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