[SPAM] Re: [nzlug] Best approach for remote-admin of a Debian box

[Cameron Bradley]

Les Ferguson wrote:
> I set my uncle up with a basic Debian desktop for browser/mail and
> left him to it with minimal service callouts.  It would be cool to
> give occasional assistance without driving there, and I am wondering
> what is the most preferred and secure approach, given Telecom adsl
> with no fixed  IP, and Debian at both ends.
>
> Googled several alternatives, but would prefer an X session rather
> than VNC.  Anybody seen a good how-to for this recently?  Which is the
> most secure way to do this?
>

My suggestion would be to set up the dyndns service with a domain, and
run it thataway? X via SSH tunnelling is slow, in many cases slower than
VNC... only way I can think of.