Re: controlling/monitoring clients

Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> I thought this list is a better venue for this discussion.
> 
> The security problem with having x11vnc launch in the chroot is that
> the encrypted password file would also have to be in the chroot.
> Since the chroot is nfs exported this is a very weak security model.
> Hence, I wonder if it would be possible to launch x11vnc (as root) on
> the client as a local app where the password file would reside in the
> main OS filesystem, where it can be protected.

"Protected" is really relative.  It is still trivially easy for a user 
logged into the system to get at that password file.

Warren

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