Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH 3/8: VNC password authentication

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:46:49PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >This patch introduces support for VNC protocols upto 3.8 and with
> >it, support for password based authentication. VNC's password based
> >authentication is not entirely secure, but it is a standard and the
> >RFB spec requires that all clients support it. The password can be
> >provided by using the monitor 'change vnc :1' and it will prompt for
> >a password to be entered. Passwords have upto 8 letters of context.
> >Pressing 'enter' without entering any characters disables password
> >auth in the server. NB, we need a custom copy of d3des here because
> >VNC uses a 'special' modification of the algorithm. This d3des code
> >is public domain & in all other VNC servers & clients.
> >  
> 
> I think it may be better to have a command to explicitly set the vnc 
> password.  Issuing "change vnc :1" just to change the password is a 
> little awkward IMHO.

Ok I'll add a separate command for that - any preference for naming.
I thought about 'change vncpassword', but the 'change' command requires
2 args and we'd only have 1 here.  Or if we think there may be other
devices/drivers which will have passwords in the future we could have
'change password vnc' as the command. 

> >-
> >-    vnc_write_u32(vs, 1); /* None */
> >-    vnc_flush(vs);
> >-
> >-    vnc_read_when(vs, protocol_client_init, 1);
> >+    VNC_DEBUG("Client request protocol version %d.%d\n", vs->major, 
> >vs->minor);
> >+    if (vs->major != 3 ||
> >+	(vs->minor != 3 &&
> >+	 vs->minor != 7 &&
> >+	 vs->minor != 8)) {
> >+	VNC_DEBUG("Unsupported client version\n");
> >+	vnc_write_u32(vs, VNC_AUTH_INVALID);
> >+	vnc_flush(vs);
> >+	vnc_client_error(vs);
> >+	return 0;
> >+    }
> >  
> 
> A very popular VNC client uses 3.5 as the protocol version.  I believe 
> the specification requires that 3.5 be treated at 3.3 because of that.

Good point. I'll add support for that.

Regards,
Dan.
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