From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 0/9: Support SASL authentication in VNC server (version 4)
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:30:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B187CE.1090504@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090302123121.GH15108@redhat.com>
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Previously I provided patches for QEMU's VNC server to support SSL/TLS
> and x509 certificates. This provides good encryption capabilities for
> the VNC session. It doesn't really address the authentication problem
> though.
>
> I have been working to create a new authentication type in the RFB
> protocol to address this need in a generic, extendable way, by mapping
> the SASL API into the RFB protocol. Since SASL is a generic plugin
> based API, this will allow use of a huge range of auth mechanims over
> VNC, without us having to add any more auth code. For example, PAM,
> Digest-MD5, GSSAPI/Kerberos, One-time key/password, LDAP password
> lookup, SQL db password lookup, and more.
>
> I have got a VNC auth type assigned by the RFB spec maintainers:
>
> http://realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2008-December/059463.html
>
Applied 1-8. I'd like to wait on 9.
There was a lot of rejects because of Jan's series. I fixed these up.
I also added another patch that fixed the tabs introduced by your series.
You want to add:
(indent-tabs-mode . nil)
To your emacs bits.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-06 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 12:31 [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 0/9: Support SASL authentication in VNC server (version 4) Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:39 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 1/9: Fix bug in TLS authentication Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:39 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 2/9: Enhance 'info vnc' monitor output Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:39 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 3/9: Refactor keymap code to avoid duplication Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:40 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 4/9: Move VNC structs into header file Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:40 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 5/9: Move TLS auth into separate file Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:41 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 6/9: Add SASL authentication support Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:41 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 7/9: Include auth credentials in 'info vnc' Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 8/9: Support ACLs for controlling VNC access Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 9/9: Persist ACLs in external files Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-02 12:49 ` [Qemu-devel] PATCH: 0/9: Support SASL authentication in VNC server (version 4) Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-06 20:30 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-03-09 9:51 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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