From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LgloV-0001NE-GC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:11:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LgloT-0001JI-7X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:11:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57313 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LgloS-0001Io-MA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:11:00 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:2719) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LgloS-0007IH-Fb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:11:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LgcM5-0003KO-46 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:05:05 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n29A24xM024851 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:02:04 -0400 Received: from file.fab.redhat.com (file.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.6]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n29A28Kk021191 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:02:08 -0400 Received: from file.fab.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by file.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n29A24Kt000431 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:02:04 GMT Received: (from berrange@localhost) by file.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n29A24xQ000403 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:02:04 GMT Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:02:04 +0000 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] support for unsetting the VNC password from the monitor. Message-ID: <20090309100204.GC4578@redhat.com> References: <1236378858.7115.168.camel@voxel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1236378858.7115.168.camel@voxel> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , 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 On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:34:18PM -0800, Nolan wrote: > 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 aim to please :-) > 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. This was news to me too! It is probably worth mentioning this explicitly in the qemu-doc.texi documentation file on the 'change vnc passwd' command, if you wish to provide a patch to that. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|