Setup and Start VNC service on Linux

Add a user for VNC

[root@]# useradd -c "VNC USER" -m vnc

Modify vncservers file to start vncserver for user vnc

[root@]# vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
[root@]# grep ^VNC /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
VNCSERVERS="2:vnc"
VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 800x600  -nohttpd"
[root@]#

Set VNC display password using vncpasswd command

[root@]# su - vnc
[vnc@]$ vncpasswd
Password:
[vnc@]$exit
[root@]#

Start VNC server

[root@]#service vncserver start

Set up to start VNC service on startup

[root@]# chkconfig --list vncserver
vncserver       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
[root@]# chkconfig --levels 345 vncserver on
[root@]# chkconfig --list vncserver
vncserver       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
[root@]#

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