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[Xen-users] securing the vnc pvfb

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Subject: [Xen-users] securing the vnc pvfb
From: "Luke S. Crawford" <lsc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:02:06 -0700 (PDT)
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I would like to allow users to install their own paravirtualized DomUs using tools like virt-install. one way to make this possible is to give the users access to the vnc console that the pvfb driver enables.

The question is this: how do I secure access to this? from what I read of vnc security, simply leaving it open isn't much of an option. I could setup a second machine that my users would have to setup a ssh tunnel through to get to it, but that removes some of the "easy and intuitive to use" bit that the vnc console provides. (not that this is unacceptable; my entire business model has been that there are people that know what they are doing, and that those people are an undeserved market... right now, I require all my customers to understand how to generate and send me a OpenSSH public keys... still, the easier, the better.)

So yeah, is anyone else opening the vnc console to customers? how do you go about securing it?

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