Mike,

I'd recommend reading the documentation, particularly that of Xvnc
(http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/man/Xvnc.html).

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Peck
> Sent: 21 July 2005 20:16
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Disabling password/making the server un-secure
> 
> 
> I used to be able to comment out the line in vncserver that 
> added -rfbauth to the Xvnc command, and the VNC server would 
> stop asking for passwords.
> 
> I'd like to move forward to 4.1.1, but can't see how to make 
> it work there.  Commenting out the rfbauth or making 
> rfbauth=0 just seems to lockdown the server completely.
> 
> I have a series of machines setup on private, disconnected 
> networks, so I have no need for security like VNC is trying 
> to give me, and in fact, the users of the machines really 
> hate the interruption of entering the password.
> 
> I started looking at the source to see if I could figure out 
> how to do this, but it looks as though I'm going to have to 
> build a whole new X-server for this, and since I'm running on 
> SuSE9.2, which uses x-org rather than XFree, I'm quite 
> reluctant to try mixing them up.  (Yes, vanilla RealVNC works 
> just fine on the SuSE box, although with this password "problem.")
> 
> Does anyone know of a way around this, without building an 
> entirely new Xvnc?  Any suggestions if I do end up building a 
> new Xvnc?  It looks like I can probably tinker with 
> VncAuthPasswdParameter::VncAuthPasswdParameter to make it 
> match anything/everything if the supplied password is empty.
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> 
> Mike
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