I modified it to behave more like the TightVNC option (whereby short or blank passwords are silently accepted) and checked it into the trunk.
On 7/9/10 4:09 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: > On 07/09/2010 12:40 PM, Antoine Martin wrote: >> 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. > OK, I needed to test it, so here it is. What do you think? > > Cheers > Antoine > > >> >> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
