From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MszYs-0005K5-PN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:49:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MszYo-0005Hg-84 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:49:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43257 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MszYn-0005Hb-Qw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:49:37 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com ([209.85.218.211]:46304) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MszYn-0005YB-0q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:49:37 -0400 Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so500487bwz.34 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AC361E8.6060907@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:49:28 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] let management expire vnc password References: <1253609255-13016-1-git-send-email-danken@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1253609255-13016-1-git-send-email-danken@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dan Kenigsberg Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > After a client connects to vnc server, management may wish to expire the > vnc password, so that an attacker has less time to break into the vm. > I don't understand what the use-case for this is. You want to basically lock out any new clients? Can't you just set the password to something random? I really don't understand why you would want to do this. Regards, Anthony Liguori