From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWHFZ-00066I-8B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:59:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWHFX-00065O-ME for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:59:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41649 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWHFX-00065I-GN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:59:19 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:36203) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWHFX-0006iD-4C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:59:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:59:12 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] set vnc password from xenstore. Message-ID: <20080821205912.GA24254@shareable.org> References: <1219336054-15919-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1219336054-15919-13-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <48ADCCA2.8050201@codemonkey.ws> <20080821201955.GG1531@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080821201955.GG1531@redhat.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Gerd Hoffmann Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > If the monitor really isn't sufficient, then I'd suggest allowing an > open file descriptor to be specified on the -vnc arg, eg > > -vnc localhost:3,passwdfd=6 If you're going to do that, pass a file name instead. If someone wants to pass a file descriptor, they can simply write passwd=/proc/self/fd/6. -- Jamie