From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lficd-00007g-H5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:34:27 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lficb-0008Vx-2n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:34:26 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34573 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lfica-0008Vc-Q7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:34:25 -0500 Received: from phong.sigbus.net ([65.49.35.42]:34064) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lfica-0007P1-GF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:34:24 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (c-71-202-202-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.202.202.194]) by phong.sigbus.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F0F795C06C for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:34:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] support for unsetting the VNC password from the monitor. From: Nolan In-Reply-To: 20090306095351.GB19083@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:34:18 -0800 Message-Id: <1236378858.7115.168.camel@voxel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Daniel wrote: > How about just making it parse quotes for the password, so you could > do > > change vnc password "" > > and thus have it set to the empty string. This would also let people > have passwords with spaces in them An excellent suggestion. So excellent in fact, that it already works with qemu as is. I rescind my request to apply this patch. Either quotes being parsed by the monitor is a relatively new phenomenon, or I spaced pretty badly when I wrote this last summer.