vncpasswd
Section: TightVNC (1)
Updated: August 2002
NAME
vncpasswd - set password for VNC server
SYNOPSIS
vncpasswd
[file]
vncpasswd
-t
DESCRIPTION
vncpasswd
should be used to create and change passwords for the VNC (Virtual
Network Computing) server authentification. Xvnc uses such
password when started with the -rfbauth command-line option (or
when started from the vncserver script).
The password file name defaults to $HOME/.vnc/passwd unless the
-t command-line option was used (see the OPTIONS section
below). The $HOME/.vnc/ directory will be created if it does not
exist.
The password has to be longer than five characters. Only the first
eight characters are significant. If the password is too short or if
the password file can't be opened for writing, the program will abort
and exit with error code 1.
Unless a file name was provided in the command-line explicitly, this
utility may perform certain sanity checks to prevent writing a
password file into some hazardous place.
OPTIONS
- -t
-
Write passwords into /tmp/$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).
SEE ALSO
vncserver(1), Xvnc(1), vncviewer(1),
vncconnect(1)
AUTHORS
Original VNC was developed in AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. TightVNC
additions was implemented by Constantin Kaplinsky. Many other people
participated in development, testing and support.
Man page authors:
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>,
Constantin Kaplinsky <const at ce.cctpu.edu.ru>