VCN Password

Forum: Networking
Topic: VCN Password
started by: nightowl66

Posted by nightowl66 on July 08 2005,06:00

I'm running a HD install of DSL and love it so far but I need to be able to access it via VNC. How do I password protect the connection? I use VNC daily from within Window$ and I don't want anyone else on the network dinking around with my DSL box. Thanks.......

Posted by mikshaw on July 08 2005,12:55

vncpasswd(1) - Linux man page
NAME
vncpasswd - set password for VNC server
SYNOPSIS

vncpasswd [file]

DESCRIPTION
The vncpasswd utility should be used to create and change passwords for the TightVNC server authentication.
Xvnc uses such passwords when started with the -rfbauth command-line option (or when started from the vnc server script).
vncpasswd allows to enter either one or two passwords. The first password is the primary one, the second password can be used for view-only authentication. Xvnc will restrict mouse and keyboard input from clients who authenticated with the view-only password. The vncpasswd utility asks interactively if it should set the second password.
The password file name defaults to $HOME/.vnc/passwd unless the -t command-line option was used. The $HOME/.vnc/ directory will be created if it does not exist.
Each password has to be longer than five characters (unless the -f command-line option was used). Only the first eight characters are significant. If the primary password is too short, the program will abort. If the view-only password is too short, then only the primary password will be saved.
Unless a file name was provided in the command-line explicitly, this utility may perform certain sanity checks to prevent writing a password file into some hazardous place.
If at least one password was saved successfully, vncpasswd will exit with status code 0. Otherwise the returned status code will be set to 1.
OPTIONS
-t Write passwords into /tmp/$USER-vnc/passwd, creating the /tmp/$USER-vnc/ directory if it does not exist, and checking the permissions on that directory (the mode must be 700). This option can help to improve security when your home partition may be shared via network (e.g. when using NFS).
-f Filter mode. Read plain-text passwords from stdin, write encrypted versions to stdout. One or two passwords (full-control and view-only) can be supplied in the input stream, newline terminates a password. Note that in the filter mode, short or even empty passwords will be silently accepted.
SEE ALSO
vncviewer(1), vncserver(1), xvnc(1), vncconnect(1)

Posted by rabbitofdeath on July 18 2005,18:05

Call me crazy

, but I can't get my VNC viewer (ultravnc) to ask me for my password. This is how my box is setup:

I have 3 users, root, dsl and ekiel - i installed the vnc server through mydsl while logged in as dsl. I then copied the .vnc folder from my dsl home to ekiel home and then reset my permissions on the folder so user ekiel is the owner. I ran the vncpasswd command (as user ekiel) and it allowed me to set the password and it didn't give me any errors. So far so good, but when i open the connection on my pc and my mac, it does not ask me for the password. I've even gone so far into opening a shell and setting the password while im connected to VNC!! Any ideas?