On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:33:30AM -0700, Matthew Kent wrote: > > The problem is security, > > Authenticating users on the page is simple enough, but i cant see a > > method by which i could put a password on the vnc port in qemu? > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureVirtSecurity is a project > tasked with improving VNC security among other things, right now qemu > doesn't have many options in that regard.
Yep, this is the code I'm just finishing off now in preparation for review on QEMU mailing lists. > > Ideally, what i would like to be able to do is when someone accesses the > > console it sets the password randomly, then embed's it into the request. > > Once everyone disconnects it resets the password (but thats not quite so > > important at this point). > > > > Xen has patches to qemu vnc for supporting passwords if you need a > starting point. Though iirc they are pulled from the xenstore or > whatever they call it, so it would need some work I'd imagine. The Xenstore integration made it pretty useless as a basis for password support in general QEMU codebase :-( Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
