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Bug 522476 - refuses passwords > 8 chars
refuses passwords > 8 chars
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 652334
Product: vinagre
Classification: Applications
Component: general
0.3
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: vinagre-maint
vinagre-maint
: 531666 549792 564163 580077 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-14 18:06 UTC by Christopher Hirschmann
Modified: 2018-09-09 06:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Christopher Hirschmann 2008-03-14 18:06:57 UTC
Please describe the problem:
Vinagre 0.3 refuses further password input after 8 chars.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch vinagre (on Fedora 8).
2. Enter ip-address or hostname of a vnc server that has a password longer than 8 chars.
3. Try to enter password. Vinagre will accept the first 8 chars, then beep an refuse any further char and consequently can't connect to the server.

Actual results:
Vinagre accepts the first 8 chars of the password an then starts beeping on every attempt to enter more chars.

Expected results:
I'd expect vinagre to accept longer passwords, as other vnc clients do.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
This bug might already have been fixed. I'm using vinagre 0.3 on Fedora 8, so it's not the latest version. I tried to check wether someone already reported this problem and wether it has been resolved, but failed. I apologize for the inconvenience if this was already imported.
Comment 1 Jonh Wendell 2008-03-14 18:29:22 UTC
Hi. Thanks for your bug report.

The RFB protocol (aka VNC) limits the password size to 8 chars.

Some servers/clients are not compatible with the specification, by allowing more than 8 chars for the password.

So, I'm closing this as 'not a bug'.

Please, file a bug against your VNC server, asking it to be RFB compatible, by not breaking the specification.
Comment 2 Jonh Wendell 2008-05-06 11:30:13 UTC
*** Bug 531666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jonh Wendell 2008-08-29 11:25:02 UTC
*** Bug 549792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jonh Wendell 2008-12-11 19:42:05 UTC
*** Bug 564163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jonh Wendell 2009-04-24 13:07:21 UTC
*** Bug 580077 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 André Klapper 2018-09-09 06:48:38 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 652334 ***