Remote into FreeBSD and VNC

[danaeckel]

Right now I use RealVNC to remote into my system. To me it is basic, no frills, basic setup. I am wondering what others use for there remote sessions.

Dana

 

[SirDice]

Do NOT open up VNC to the internet! Really, don't. If you want to use VNC tunnel it over an ssh(1) session.

 

[gqgunhed]

Try to learn to use ssh(), for example in combination with sysutils/tmux or sysutils/screen to keep your session/jobs up and running while being disconnected.

No need to open up an unencrypted visual entrance to your system

 

[equipages]

Yeah, I use ssh with putty. Not sure how one could do any better than this.

 

[danaeckel]

Ok, I did leave out the SSH part. It works, but I was just checking to see if this is old school, or if others were doing something as effective, but in a single package.

 

[SirDice]

For a GUI either VNC or NX are probably the only viable choices. For console access there's really only one, ssh(1).