[Libvirt] VNC auth per VM
Jim Paris
jim at jtan.com
Thu Jun 11 09:09:02 UTC 2009
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > What about the VNC password?
> > That's per-VM, isn't it?
>
> That is true by I don't really consider VNC password to be useful. It is
> utterly insecure. ...
Garry Dolley wrote:
> With KVM/QEMU, you can set a VNC password per VM.
>
> But I think it is either/or though; you can use VNC with passwords
> (no encryption), or use VNC with TLS, which is encrypted, but anyone
> with a valid certificate can connect (to any VM).
Ok, makes sense. In my own case, where VNC only listens on 127.0.0.1
and all remote connections are tunneled through SSH anyway, I think
that plaintext passwords and the lack of VNC encryption would be OK.
Thanks for the clearifications.
-jim
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