On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:26:44AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:13:26 +0200
> Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:58:20AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > > 
> > > What features do UltraVNC have that makes it desirable to use over
> > > TigerVNC?
> > > 
> > 
> > It's mainly this "MS-Logon" authentication feature.. ie. UltraVNC server
> > installed on Windows supports authenticating VNC connections using Windows
> > (Active Directory) username+password .. no need for separate "VNC-only" 
> > password. 
> > 
> 
> There was some talk about SASL support. AFAIK that includes a
> user/password pair mode of authentication. We should be able to hook
> that up to Windows' password database.
> 

That would be excellent! 

UltraVNC server on windows allows you to specify 
'members of group X are allowed to connect using VNC using their 
username+password'.

So it could 'Administrators' group, or 'VNC users' group.. 

-- Pasi

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