No password for VNC viewer?

[Chris Boucher]

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, James [Wez] Weatherall wrote:
> > 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.

On a related note, is it possible to pass the win vncviewer the password
on the command line along with the server name?

Chris.


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