Re: Monitor commands related to display server passwords

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

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:03:03AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:02:56AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:

> > Related: QCryptoSecret objects.
> 
> snip
> 
> > Currently used by various block backends and the tls-creds-x509 object.
> > 
> > Would it make sense with display servers, too?
> 
> In 6.0 I introduced support for 'password-secret' to SPICE and VNC
> command line.
> 
> I don't know why, but I only deprecated 'password' in SPICE and
> not in VNC.

The 'password' option in VNC isn't actually setting a password,
it is more like saying  'auth=password'. The actualpassword
had to be set via the 'change' command, we never allowed it on
the CLI before. So there was nothing to deprecate for VNC, only
SPICE.

With regards,
Daniel
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