VNC authentication time-out?

[James Weatherall]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Mark G. Spencer wrote:

> I've just done some testing with UltraVNC and noticed that it doesn't
> appear to have a VNC authentication time-out - or at least not less
> than 5 minutes.  ;)
> 
> I'm wondering if RealVNC has a (default) time-out?  And if anyone has
> any insight into this particular function?  I would think it would be
> a good idea not to leave the port open waiting for authentication for
> an unlimited period of time - if only to make reading logs easier.

Standard VNC 4 system release do include a timeout on the authentication 
phase of a connection (the UltraVNC project is based on our old VNC 3 
system)

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Dr. James "Wez" Weatherall
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