RE: Authenication

From: Jonathan Morton ()
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 15:24:48 EDT

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    >I have found someone that is interested in potentially writing the User
    >Authentication for VNC. I have an RFP at
    > that details one way
    >this could be done. The way I have described isn't the only way and we
    >could come up with a detailed method later after we have committed some
    >money to the project.

    One Big Problem with your approach there - it relies on SMB, which is
    awkward to set up on Linux and near-impossible on Macs. I'd prefer to use
    a simple, TCP-based connection to a server which can be on any platform, or
    the option to use a local database file. Also, some way of implementing
    the "username" request would be needed in the RFB protocol itself, which is
    _very_ hard to do without breaking compatibility.

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