Package: tightvnc Severity: wishlist Hi
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:04:11PM -0500, Andy Teijelo Pérez wrote: > El Domingo, 6 de Noviembre de 2005 4:01, Ola Lundqvist escribió: > > Hello > > > > I do not know anything about such a function. > > I found a man page here http://www.tightvnc.com/vncpasswd.1.html > > > Yes it is in the vnc-common package as they are identical (or at least > > extremely similar). > > > > Following the links in the tightvnc website I downloaded their source code > from > http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/vnc-tight/tightvnc-1.2.9_unixsrc.tar.bz2 > > after building it vncpasswd indeed asks for both passwords. After setting > them, the tightvncserver package I had installed worked as expected. The > first password it asks gives complete control of the Xvnc server and the > second one only lets you view the server. > After that, to be sure I was using the same source of my installed packages I > downloaded the source from > ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tightvnc/tightvnc_1.2.9.orig.tar.gz > > and everything worked the same way. Very interesting. I was not aware that there were any difference. Thanks a lot for the information. > > > > This has been the case for several years and I have not changed it > > lately. So you may have used something else than Debian in this case, or? > > > Well, if you say so, then I was, for sure, not using Debian. > > Since this doesn't seem to be a licensing problem or some conscious decision, > is there a possibility that the vncpasswd utility from tightvnc could be > included? Its behavior is not exactly the same as the one in vnc-common. > Without it, tightvncserver is lacking a very useful feature. Maybe it could > be added as a new package or as part of the tightvncserver package, using the > alternatives mechanism or something similar. > > Maybe this is not the right place for this kind of requests, but I think it's > worth asking. I fully agree. I'll see if I can add this feature as well. Adding this as a wishlist bug against the package. Regards, // Ola > Cheers, > Andy. > > Regards, > > > > // Ola > > > > > Regards, > > > Andy. > -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering ---- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://www.opal.dhs.org Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
