Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug(?): Can't unset vnc password (v1.0)

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

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 03:57:15PM +0200, Reeted wrote:
> In qemu-kvm 1.0 (from ubuntu Precise) I don't seem to be able to
> UNSET the vnc password once it has been set via qemu monitor.
> I can set it to "" which is empty password, but a VNC client
> connecting still asks to enter a password. It does log in if I enter
> the empty string, but I think it should not ask the password at all.
> Or is there any other way to disable password authentication,
> different from setting an empty password string?
> Note: I am using set_password from qemu-monitor (actually libvirt's
> qemu-monitor-command).

QEMU must *not* change the VNC authentication method as a side effect of
setting a password.

QEMU does not have any monitor command to let you change the auth
method specified from the command line, but such a command would
be a welcome addition.

Regards,
Daniel
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