WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: 3/4: Add VNC auth support from upstream QEMU

To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: 3/4: Add VNC auth support from upstream QEMU
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:53:59 +0200
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:54:38 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20071029215247.GJ1053@xxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <20071029214858.GG1053@xxxxxxxxxx> <20071029215247.GJ1053@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:52:47PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> This patch adds in the upstream QEMU VNC authentication code. This spports 
> the previous
> VNC password auth scheme, as well as the VeNCrypt protocol extenion. The 
> latter allows
> for performing a TLS handshake, and client verification of the server 
> identify using
> x509 certificates. It is also possible for the server to request a client 
> certificate
> and validate that as a simple auth scheme. The code depends on GNU TLS for 
> SSL APIs,
> and the configure script will auto-detect this.
> 

Hi!

Might be a stupid question as I don't know what upstream QEMU VNC supports,
but would it make sense to add user+pass authentication support (via pam) ?

UltraVNC supports this, at least against Windows/AD users.

-- Pasi

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel