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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] vnc/spice: add monitor commands to
	change+expire passwords.
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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On 12/01/2010 10:07 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 12/01/10 15:10, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 11/30/2010 07:22 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patch series adds new monitor commands to set and expire
>>> the password:
>>>
>>> set-password $protocol $secret
>>> expire-password $protocol [ now | never | +secs | secs ]
>>>
>>> The time when the password expires can be specified either relative
>>> (+60 == password expires in 60 seconds from now) or absolute in seconds
>>> since 1970 aka unix-epoch.
>>
>> In the server TZ?
>
> No, GMT, i.e. what time(2) gives you.

You're right, I confused myself.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
>> Unless you have a strong desire to keep it, I would just drop the
>> absolute bit.
>
> Internally it uses absolute times, so I though it may provide that 
> interface too as it is almost no extra effort and someone might find 
> it useful ...
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd