From: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] let management expire vnc password
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:03:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930140312.GB5408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC361E8.6060907@codemonkey.ws>
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:49:28AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
>> After a client connects to vnc server, management may wish to expire the
>> vnc password, so that an attacker has less time to break into the vm.
>>
>
> I don't understand what the use-case for this is.
>
> You want to basically lock out any new clients? Can't you just set the
> password to something random?
Yes, and actually that's what we currently do. But having a random
password still opens a crack for guessing it.
> I really don't understand why you would
> want to do this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 8:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] let management expire vnc password Dan Kenigsberg
2009-09-30 13:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-30 14:03 ` Dan Kenigsberg [this message]
2009-09-30 14:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-30 16:45 ` Dan Kenigsberg
2009-09-30 21:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-02 9:58 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-10-02 13:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-02 14:49 ` Jamie Lokier
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