I agree with tunnelling VNC and rsync over SSH. Some other ideas; you could also tunnel the web interface over ssh, but it is not always do-able. You could also look at using https with ssl/tls on the Apache install and use certificate based authentication with a password still on the site. But that maybe overboard for just a simple home setup. You can also look at where you are likely to hit your mythweb from and restrict source IP's on your router or firewall. Forgot to reply to all, also <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythWeb#Securing_Mythweb">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythWeb#Securing_Mythweb</a> -- Regards Morgan Storey <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Paul Gear <<a href="mailto:paul@libertysys.com.au">paul@libertysys.com.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 25/06/10 15:24, Tom Sparks wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I have a computer that I run mythtv on I want to secure the remote access options I have VNC I have a website (mythtv's mythweb), currently I use a username/password I am looking at setting up rsync server What are my options? </blockquote></div> The most important thing you can do is use both VNC and rsync over ssh. By default neither VNC nor rsync use encrypted connections, and by using them over an ssh connection, you keep the same advantages, but do so with an encrypted and authenticated connection. There are plenty of tutorials about this out there on the web, but basically, you want to use public key authentication and tunnel the VNC and rsync connections through ssh. -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div>