No password for VNC viewer?

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Eric Schwartz wrote:

> I've been playing with VNC for a little bit, and I have two questions:
> 
> 1) Is it possible to have an arbitrary VNC client connect to the server
>    without supplying a password?  We'd like to set up a server running
>    only one application that anyone could connect to.  Please ignore
>    security issues for this question; if you like, assume the application 
>    is running as a totally unprivileged user.

Under WinVNC, yes.  Set the AuthRequired option in the registry to zero
and set the password field to be empty.

> 2) Is there a way to set the VNC server's password programatically?  I'd
>    like to set up a web page running under an SSL-protected server that
>    let the user change the password.  Can this be done from a CGI script?

Xvns's password can be set programatically.  WinVNC's can't.

Hope that helps!

James "Wez" Weatherall
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