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Necessary and sufficient ssh port forwarding
Authored by: osxpounder on Mon, Nov 26 2007 at 9:17PM PST

So what's the proper command to create a secure tunnel for using a VNC connection to remotely control my Mac?

Necessary and sufficient ssh port forwarding
Authored by: wallybear on Fri, Jan 11 2008 at 5:44PM PST

I had successful connections using the following command:

ssh -N -f -L 5999:127.0.0.1:5900 user@remoteMac

after authentication, launch Chicken of the VNC (or your preferred VNC viewer) and use localhost:5999 as destination server.