From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH STABLE-0.14/0.15/master] CVE-2011-0011: fix VNC password change to not touch authentication settings
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:52:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E55101C.8080700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E54F4CA.1000809@codemonkey.ws>
Hi,
> I'll buy an argument about usability but not about security. We need a
> higher level command to disable login
expire_password vnc now
> and a higher level command to set
> the vnc password. This interface should be considered deprecated.
set_password vnc secret
HTH,
Gerd
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-24 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 11:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH STABLE-0.14/0.15/master] CVE-2011-0011: fix VNC password change to not touch authentication settings Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-24 12:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 12:50 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-24 12:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 13:02 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-24 14:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
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