[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix instructions on 'vnc_password' to describe current behaviour

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Jan 7 14:51:40 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:38:05PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:17:37PM +0000, Neil Wilson wrote:
> > This documentation change fixes the description of vnc_password in
> > qemu.conf to fit the behaviour introduced in commit
> > ab952024f42726a291d2c0ceda10071b88da7533 which treats a non-existent VNC
> > password and an empty string password in the same way.
> 
> No this is not correct. If the password is set to "", then
> QEMU should be denying access when the ',password' flag is
> set on the command line.

The behaviour you're seeing is a bug recently introduced in
the QEMU monitor password command handling by QEMU GIT repo
changeset 52c18be9e99dabe295321153fda7fce9f76647ac.

Daniel




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