On 07/09/2010 06:18 AM, DRC wrote: > I would prefer it if the semantics were the same as the legacy vncpasswd > from TightVNC, whereby passing an argument of -f makes vncpasswd read > the plain text password from stdin and output the encrypted password to > stdout. I think that is ultimately more useful, since one could then > use vncpasswd in any command chain. I wasn't aware of the "-f" > > I will modify your patch to do this if it sounds reasonable. Please do.
Antoine > > On 7/8/10 1:22 PM, Antoine Martin wrote: >> [snip] >>>>> $ vncpasswd ARDpasswd >>>>> Password: <type "mypasswd"> >>>>> Verify: <type "mypasswd"> >>>> The reason why I didn't want to use vncpasswd is that it is interactive, >>>> are there any pure command line alternatives that I can use? >>> >>> I'm affraid it is currently impossible. However you might temporarily >>> use the "passwdInput" patch from Fedora and pass password directly to >>> vncviewer via pipe. >> There is now (see patch attached). >> >> Allows us to specify the password on the vncpasswd command line. ie: >> vncpasswd --password=MYPASSWORD ./password-file >> >> Tested against Apple's ARD and Xvnc, works for me. >> >> The patch is pretty ugly, done to minimize the number of line changed >> rather than doing anything efficient. >> What do you think? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Tigervnc-devel mailing list > Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
