heads up, folks: random vnc (remote desktop) attempts

[Norberto Bensa]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Norberto Bensa wrote:
>> You could make it a separate partition, and mount it noexec; /home
>
> I seem to have some faint memory that /tmp is used by apt and needs to
> be non-noexec. But I cannot recall for certain.

Hm. I don't know, but if it's true, it is most certainly a bug. apt
shouldn't rely on /tmp being on a executable partition.


>> Just don't run VNC or any other service if don't need it. And if you
>> do, please, secure it and monitor it.
>
> Sure. But how do monitor it? It (vino) doesn't appear to leave any logs
> at all!

You can monitor the service you use to secure your vnc connections
(ssh for example) ;-)

Regards,
Norberto