Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: VNC

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Christopher Olsen wrote:
> Sorry I'll attempt to use the preferred patching method in the future..
>
> Secure vnc auth method the default built in method from
>   

We can't take a password from a command line.  Supporting VNC auth is 
super easy otherwise.  I really think we need to have a config file 
before we can do VNC passwords.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> On Sunday 18 February 2007 19:14, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Actually I have a version 2 to my patch which I will forward in by
>>> tomorrow which allows for vnc authentication..
>>>       
>> Which one? AFAICT there are three authentication methods, one of which is
>> not secure at all. Another one is no vnc authentication at all, but rather
>> an ssh authentication. The third method does not encrypt the rest of the
>> protocol, so is not secure. (And yes, there exists a fourth method, which
>> appears to be purely VNC, but which is not open source.)
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Dscho
>>
>> P.S.: I forgot to mention that your patch is not in unified format, which
>> seems to be the preferred patch format on this list.
>>
>>
>>
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