security in VNC

I’d be grateful if someone could point me to a guide on how to run VNC over SSH (on FreeBSD).

I tried to build Hamachi LogMeIn under FreeBSD — it started pulling in Linux packages and choked. I figured I didn’t know how to launch vncserver bound to a specific interface anyway, so I decided to go a different route and drop Hamachi (also tried it under Windows, opened the incoming RDP port in the firewall — it connected, but dropped after a minute. Never figured out why).

TightVNC I installed, it works — I couldn’t be happier. But only on the local network; haven’t tested it over the internet yet, and I’m still launching vncserver manually from the console.

On the to-do list: set up a DynDNS client (also haven’t figured that out yet).

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