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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] vnc: support password expire
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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On 11/17/2010 04:23 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> But the later let's a management tool implement arbitrarily complex
>> expiration policies.
>
>
> Hmm, we could do this:
>
> set-password $protocol $secret
> expire-password $protocol [ now | never | $seconds ]
>
> Comments?

I would be happy with this.  I don't mind a bit of policy creeping into 
qemu as long as we're exposing the underlying mechanisms.

If it were me, I'd do:

set-password $protocol $secret
unset-password $protocol
expire-password [never | $seconds]

And I would implement expire-password in terms of unset-password.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>   Gerd
>
>