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Bug 531666 - password size
password size
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 522476
Product: vinagre
Classification: Applications
Component: general
0.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: vinagre-maint
vinagre-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-06 05:42 UTC by Niaz Dokrat
Modified: 2008-05-06 11:30 UTC
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Description Niaz Dokrat 2008-05-06 05:42:13 UTC 
I am running vnc server on a Windows XP sp2 machine and realized that you limit the password length in vinagre to only 8 characters. i am using the version that came pre-installed on ubuntu 8.04 and  i was wondering if you could increase the password size to 16 chars.
Comment 1 Henrik Holst 2008-05-06 08:23:07 UTC 
The 8 character limit on passwords is a hard limit in the VNC protocol, the VNC-clients that allow more than 8 characters truncate silently to 8-characters (the servers do this as well).

There is some proprietary extensions to the protocol by RealVNC which extends the password lenght but I have never seen any details since they keep their changes secret (as far as I know).
Comment 2 Jonh Wendell 2008-05-06 11:30:13 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 522476 ***