VNC Study Note

Depedency

RHEL7.9, LDAP/NIS, KDE Desktop, VNC

Install KDE Desktop

Configure BASE & EPEL Repository
# yum -y groupinstall "X Window system"
# yum -y groupinstall "KDE"
# init 3
# init 5

Install VNC

# yum -y install xterm
# rpm -ivh VNC-Server-6.2.0-Linux-x64.rpm

Disable firewalld/selinux/NetworkManager

# systemctl stop firewalld
# systemctl disable firewalld

# vim /etc/selinux/config
...
SELINUX=disabled
...
# setenforce 0

# systemctl stop NetworkManager
# systemctl disable NetworkManager

Activation

# /usr/bin/vnclicense -add XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

NIS/LDAP Authentication

Create a custom VNC authentication file
# vim /etc/pam.d/vncserver.custom
auth     include  password-auth
account  include  password-auth
session  include  password-auth

Create a custom VNC profile
# vim /etc/vnc/config.d/common.custom
PamApplicationName=vncserver.custom

Set fonts

# vim /etc/vnc/config
...
-pn
-fp "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,built-ins"

Start Service

# systemctl start vncserver-virtuald.service
# systemctl enable vncserver-virtuald.service