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Re: Remote access PC support



On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:32:40PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 06:45:51PM -0500, speaker11@bellsouth.net wrote:
> 
> > I have a question about remote access. One of my co-workers wants to
> > know if I could provide support for there small network of PC's at
> > home.
> 
> Yup.  If every other system you're supporting is Linux, then SSH is
> all you need (and it's X11 forwarding option is your friend).  If not,
> you'll have to go with the much slower, much more insecure VNC.

One note of caution: have another box locally, can be of the age that
can be scrounged for $0 and needn't have monitor/keyboard, on which is
installed the same software as is on the remote system, so you can
test what you're about to do to the remote system on a local box of
your own first.

I say this because I've just broken a remote box doing an apt-get
upgrade - security upgrades to woody - which Isn't Supposed To Happen.
Don't know exactly how, because ssh is one of the things that broke...

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