Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make password based authentication the default for VNC

2016-06-07 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > Agreed. The target of this patch is however not people who know that > they want security, but rather people who don't know it :-). Ie. > people who just run things with their default settings and stop as > soon as it seems to work, without conideration for security. I have my doubts this

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make password based authentication the default for VNC

2016-06-07 Thread Attila-Mihaly Balazs
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 12:13:06PM +0300, Attila-Mihaly Balazs wrote: >> To improve the security of the embedded VNC server make password >> based authentication the default when no authentication mechanism >> is specified. > > VNC passw

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make password based authentication the default for VNC

2016-06-07 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 12:13:06PM +0300, Attila-Mihaly Balazs wrote: > To improve the security of the embedded VNC server make password > based authentication the default when no authentication mechanism > is specified. VNC password authentication offers no meaningful level of security, so this i

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make password based authentication the default for VNC

2016-06-07 Thread Attila-Mihaly Balazs
To improve the security of the embedded VNC server make password based authentication the default when no authentication mechanism is specified. If you really want to use "no authentication", a new authentication option called "insecure" is introduced which needs to be explicitly specified. Note: