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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password
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Laurent Vivier |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:45:36 +0200 |
Le jeudi 23 octobre 2008 à 17:10 +0200, François Revol a écrit :
> > Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:
> > >> <shameless plug>
> > >> You might want to check out http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/qemu-gtk/
> > > > > >> then. It can deal with "-vnc $host:$display,password" just fine.
> > > > Sets
> > >> a random password via monitor, then connects to the vnc server
> > > > using the
> > >> password just set. Password is never stored anywhere, it sets a
> > > > new
> > >> random one each time you start the ui to see the screen of your
> > > > VM.
> > >> </shameless plug>
> > >
> > > That's not something I'd want to use while I'm trying to get rid of
> > > any
> > > kind of X dependencies.
> >
> > qemu-gtk can handle that remotely too. monitor must listen on tcp
> > then
> > though, which you might not want to do for security reasons ...
> >
> > Back to the original question: read password from file isn't
> > implemented
> > as far I know.
>
> When I want to specify passwords on command line I usually do something
> like:
>
> read p
> qemu ...,$p
>
> That makes sure it's not stored in the history.
but everyone can see it with a "ps -ef".
> You can as well use read p < afile
>
> If you really don't want to have the string as part of the environment
> you can try command substitution...
>
> qemu ...,$(cat afile)
ditto
> Alike, the real password won't be stored inthe history.
>
> man bash should help :)
>
> François.
>
>
>
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC Password, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC Password, Gerd Hoffmann, 2008/10/23
- [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password, Volkan YAZICI, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password, Gerd Hoffmann, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password, François Revol, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password,
Laurent Vivier <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password, François Revol, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password, Jamie Lokier, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password, François Revol, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password, Gerd Hoffmann, 2008/10/24