any way to do that through putty?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 August 2010 18:13, Alan Lord (News) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alanslists@gmail.com">alanslists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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 28/08/10 17:37, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:<br> > If the VNC Server is on the same machine that you are ssh'ing into,<br> > then the command would look as follows:<br> ><br> > ssh -C -L 5900:localhost:5900<user>@<destination_server> -N&<br> <br> </div>We do this to manage some of our customers' servers. We also use<br> private/public key pairs, and configure ssh so so no logins are allowed<br> with passwords.<br> <br> Also, I concur with an earlier post and recommend installing denyhosts.<br> <br> sudo apt-get install denyhosts<br> <br> Very useful against bruteforce attacks.<br> <br> Al<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> --<br> The Open Learning Centre<br> <a href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com" target="_blank">http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com</a><br> <font color="#888888"><br> <br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>