On Mi, 2013-10-16 at 17:52 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > ui/vnc.c:vnc_display_open() and spice-server/server/reds.c:do_spice_init() > are both calling sasl_server_init(). If spice_server_set_sasl_appname() > hasn't been called, spice-server will call it with "spice" as an appname, > causing cyrus-sasl to try to use a /etc/sasl2/spice.conf config file rather > than the /etc/sasl2/qemu.conf file that QEMU uses. > > When using -spice sasl on the command line, QEMU properly calls > spice_server_set_sasl_appname() to set the SASL appname as "qemu", > but when using a QXL device without using SPICE, spice_server_init() > is called from qemu_spice_add_interface() without setting the appname > to "qemu", which then causes the VNC code to try to use spice.conf > instead of qemu.conf.
patch added to spice patch queue. thanks, Gerd