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Thanks for the tip with tight VNC -- this looks cool. I will now have to upgrade all of my boxes (solaris, linux, mac osx, win xp, openbsd) to it....I cant live without VNC, greatest thing since sliced bread. Now if Epson would only listen to the griping and whining and shut me up by delivering a working driver for Mac OS X .......... Jim

Thanks for the tip with tight VNC -- this looks cool. I will now have to upgrade all of my boxes (solaris, linux, mac osx, win xp, openbsd) to it....I cant live without VNC, greatest thing since sliced bread. Now if Epson would only listen to the griping and whining and shut me up by delivering a working driver for Mac OS X .......... Jim

I recently saw a VNC server for mac os x on versiontracker.com. ...

Yes. I got this working some time ago - but not rootless. I have XonX (Xdarwin) working. It takes over the whole desktop - so no Aqua applications running side-by-side ... but it works. I ssh to my Linux box, set the DISPLAY variable, and everything just works - I can even run KDE and Enlightenment. In fact, I just run my .xstartup script so I get a bunch of xterms and other...

From the Washington Post today... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/new_trojan_leverages_unpatched.html?nav=rss_blog "... Dai Zovi said the Trojan tries two different exploits to install itself without having to prompt the user for his or her system credentials. One exploit is the aforementioned ARDagent attack; the other is for a privilege escalation...

Hi, I have a PB G4 running Chicken of the VNC to a Windows XP Home Edition box at home (running latest fully licensed VNC server as per date of this posting). 16Mbs broadband at home, immense b/w at office :) but performance is unusable. Mouse tracking is attrocious, screen paints take minutes... Any tips on how to address this?

If your system is booted and the Login window is being displayed, then yes, a "Terminal session" of sorts is running. Here's some output from my system log, and my system has not ever been compromised: exception:\nNSRangeException -- *** -: index (0) beyond bounds (0)\nStack trace: 0x3719a 0x915f60fb 0x962e102b 0x962e106a 0x95e2d3df 0x95dab218 0x70568 0x70da7 0x5a451...

What is happening here with accounts and Root? 5/20/08 12:22:46 AM kernel Received kIODeviceNotResponding error - retrying: 1. 5/20/08 12:22:47 AM kextd writing kernel link data to /var/run/mach.sym 5/20/08 12:22:47 AM com.apple.configureLocalKDC launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.kdcmond 5/20/08 12:22:47 AM com.apple.configureLocalKDC /usr/sbin/kadmin.local-q...

first, thanks to all for taking the time to consider this issue. Good to know that my optical drive can't write to the install discs. I've stopped assuming anything at this point. As far as knowledge about the other stuff - I've just been doing a ton of reading about mac specific and unix in general. Lots to learn. I've used different passwords and user names each time...

"Over time the Mac allows unknown user(s) to log into the computer, change permissions and eventually obtain root authority. Data is sent from the machine to the internet. Using a combination of ssh or telnet logins with AppleScript automation my machine is consistently compromised. Mouse movements are tracked, passwords are detected by a script that dupes me into thinking the...