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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: ioemu: empty vnc passwd
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:42:33 +0000
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Daniel P. Berrange, le Wed 23 Jan 2008 16:28:11 +0000, a écrit :
> VNC password authentication is turned on / off via the ',passwd' flag on
> the -vnc command line to QEMU. If password auth is on, and a zero length 
> string is found as a password, then all logins are completely disabled - 
> the VNC password auth code will fail all logins. If passwd auth is off on 
> the  command line, then any password stored in xenstore is irrelevant, no
> matter what length it is.

Ok, so the real fix seems to be to take that flag into account (which is
not the case currently).

Samuel