Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix VNC SASL authentication when using a QXL device

[Gerd Hoffmann]

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