vncpasswd(1)
NAME
- vncpasswd - creating and changing password files to be
- used with VNC
SYNOPSIS
vncpasswd [file]
DESCRIPTION
- vncpasswd should be used to create and change passwords
- for the Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server authentication.
EXAMPLES
- vncpasswd Invoke vncpasswd and create or change the de
- fault password file.
- vncpasswd /tmp/foo
- Invoke vncpasswd and create or change the pass
- word in file /tmp/foo.
OVERVIEW
- Xvnc is a free X server that can be used to display and
- control X sessions platform independent over the network. To con
- nect to a VNC X server, the client viewer will request a password
- from the user. This password will be compared with the password
- in the file specified with the -rfbauth option to the VNC server.
- 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.
DEFAULTS
- vncpasswd without a command line argument will look for a
- $vncPasswdFile variable in /etc/vnc.conf and in ~/.vncrc. If
- this is found, the password in the specified file will be
- changed.
- If not, the password file to be changed or created will
- default to ~/.vnc/passwd.
OPTIONS
file The password file to create or change.
FILES
- /etc/vnc.conf, ~/.vncrc
- This files will be scanned for $vncPasswdFile. The
- last occurence specifies the password file to create or change.
- If no variable with this name is found and no filename on the
- command line specified, the default name will be used (see
- above).
SEE ALSO
vncserver(1x), Xvnc(1x), vnc.conf(5).
AUTHOR
- VNC developed at Olivetti Research Labs, Cambridge (now
- AT&T Laboratories, Cambridge) by Tristan Richardson, Ken Wood,
- James Weatherall, Andy Harter, Charlie McLachlan, Paul Webster,
- Quentin Stafford-Fraser and others. This manpage written by
- Marcus Brinkmann for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
- 3.3.1 March 16th, 1998