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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

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

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