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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] vnc/spice: add monitor commands to change+expire passwords.
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:07:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF672C8.8050500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF65769.2080807@codemonkey.ws>

On 12/01/10 15:10, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 07:22 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch series adds new monitor commands to set and expire
>> the password:
>>
>> set-password $protocol $secret
>> expire-password $protocol [ now | never | +secs | secs ]
>>
>> The time when the password expires can be specified either relative
>> (+60 == password expires in 60 seconds from now) or absolute in seconds
>> since 1970 aka unix-epoch.
>
> In the server TZ?

No, GMT, i.e. what time(2) gives you.

> Unless you have a strong desire to keep it, I would just drop the
> absolute bit.

Internally it uses absolute times, so I though it may provide that 
interface too as it is almost no extra effort and someone might find it 
useful ...

cheers,
   Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-30 13:22 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] vnc/spice: add monitor commands to change+expire passwords Gerd Hoffmann
2010-11-30 13:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] vnc: auth reject cleanup Gerd Hoffmann
2010-11-30 13:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] vnc: support password expire Gerd Hoffmann
2010-11-30 13:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] vnc/spice: add set_passwd monitor command Gerd Hoffmann
2010-12-01 14:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] vnc/spice: add monitor commands to change+expire passwords Anthony Liguori
2010-12-01 16:07   ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2010-12-01 17:02     ` Anthony Liguori

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