Hi all, can someone please clarify the intent of the setcredentials command mentioned below?
Thanks in advance, Regards, Pieter On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Pieter Van Gorp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > can the password of a VBox RDP server be changed using VBoxManage, > using the following command? >>> vboxmanage setcredentials <username> <password> <domain> > > I did not have any luck in my initial testing... From the VBox > documentation, I am not too optimistic, since it only mentions > out-of-the-box support for host OS credentials... Perhaps using > SETCREDENTIALS does work in the meanwhile and I am missing something? > Or do I have to write some C code based on the 9.3 section of the > manual (Custom external VRDP authentication)? > > Basically, I want to provide external users temporary access to a VBox > session (using RDP, VNC, or whatever remote desktop protocol). After > shutting down a session using VBoxManage, I want to change the > password for the particular VBox machine and then start it again for > another user... Originally, I presumed I had to install a VNC server > within the virtual machines but ran into the problem that for Windows > guests, the password of VNC servers cannot be changed > dynamically/programmatically to a new password... so I was quite happy > to discover the potential of using VBOX RDP in combination with > SETCREDENTIALS... > > Thanks in advance for your insight, > -- > Pieter Van Gorp _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
