On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:40:23PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:25:53 +0200
> Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So.. would it be possible to check for protocol versions 3.4/3.6 and then
> > enable UltraVNC specific features in TigerVNC client? 
> > 
> 
> As those versions are not officially allocated to UltraVNC, I'd say no.
> There might be a low risk of conflict, but we want to stick to the
> proper ways of extending the protocol.
> 

OK. Understood. 

> Once UltraVNC is up to date with the current protocol, we can revisit
> the issue under a more proper authentication handshake method.
> 

How about adding --enable-uvnc-mslogon-auth (or something) cmdline option 
to tigervnc client? Default behaviour would not be changed, but when that
option is specified, then the non-standard handshake could be used? 

I've been missing *nix VNC client with out-of-the-box UltraVNC
authentication support for years :) (and I can see now why it hasn't been 
implemented..) 

-- Pasi

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