[WBEL-users] VNC password

[William Hooper]

Denis Croombs said:
>>> I have a VNC terminal that I am trying to use with Whitebox, but it
>>> is asking for a password (not a Linux user password but a VNC password
>>> 
> before
>>> the Linux user password) We have tried using vncpasswd to set this 
>>> password but it will not accept this password, any idea how to turn
>>> off the requirement for this password as it was not required on a
>>> Redhat 9.0
>>> system which we have managed to get the VNC terminal working on !
>> 
>> How are you starting the VNC server?  Manually, xinetd, XFree module,
>> etc.
>> 
> 
> Currently from /etc/inittab 

inittab?  That's a new one.

> but have tried manually with the same
> results, but can try anything to get this working.

If you can't connect to a manually started VNC session then there is something broken in your viewer.

That said, VNC v4 (which WBEL uses) has a new "securitytypes" setting that you will probably be interested in.

http://www.realvnc.com/v4/man/Xvnc.html

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William Hooper