Dave Stevens <geek <at> uniserve.com> writes:
> But does anyone know what I need to do to make the vncserver start up without
> a user login? And also it should be possible (or perhaps it will happen by
> default) that I can log in to the x session after I get access with
> vncviewer. References, howtos, pointers to documents welcome.
OK what I do is as follows:
On the machine that acts as the vnc server I add a section in xorg.conf
like:
Section "Module"
Load "vnc"
EndSection
and also in the "screen" section there is a password line added
like:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "passwordFile" "/opt/local/etc/vnc/passwd"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
That machine is booted to runlevel 5 and nothing further needed there.
In the client machine I have entries in .ssh/config such as
Host farend
#next line when port forwarding for ssh changes from 22 to 23456
Port 23456
ForwardAgent yes
Hostname farend.specialhost.co.uk
LocalForward 55900 localhost:5900
So in one terminal window I then:
ssh farend
and this sets up the tunnel with port forwarding from local 55900
to remote 5900
Then I have a script which is run in a second terminal window that
essentially does
vncviewer -passwd ~/.vnc/passwd localhost:55900
Then this gives a vnc window to the server machine via the tunnel even if
the remote user has not yet logged in provided X on the server is running.
I hope this helps.
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