From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJCAD-0007ll-5z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:18:57 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJCAB-0007l5-HY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:18:56 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJCAB-0007ky-Du for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:18:55 -0500 Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.40]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HJCAB-0004OH-57 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:18:55 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.151] ([71.167.55.15]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JDQ006P901RM790@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:17:51 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:16:45 -0500 From: Christopher Olsen Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: VNC In-reply-to: Message-id: <200702191216.45989.cwolsen@domainatlantic.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200702161402.23660.cwolsen@domainatlantic.com> <200702190719.34296.cwolsen@domainatlantic.com> 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 Understandable... However I'm not sure about others and how they intend to use QEMU.. But I for one know that I do have a use for authentication within the VNC session.. You're right that it's supposed to be a standard protocol but it doesn't appread to be from the many different flavors of VNC i've seen and how they license it. -Christopher On Monday 19 February 2007 09:53, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote: > > I've done some further thought and investigation and as far as using > > QEMU inside a Unix environment, I see no reason as to why the > > authentication couldn't be tied into PAM... > > Because this is supposed to be a standard protocol, meant for widespread > use, not just on Unix. > > I see many developments in the VNC protocol lately, which only target one > special use case. Which is quite sad, because I think that with just a > little more thought the results would be so much more useful for others, > too. > > See for example the inbuilt VNC server in QEmu. It does not exchange any > code with any other VNC implementation. So, every improvement in this or > that implementation is lost on all the others. Like I said, sad. > > Ciao, > Dscho > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel -- Christopher Olsen cwolsen@domainatlantic.com Tel: 631-676-4877 Fax: 631-249-3036