> I have no > clue why VNC passwords are limited/truncated to eight characters, but it > seems like that limitation makes the protocol not worth supporting at > all, let alone worth promoting in System Settings.
The only VNC authentication mechanism standardized in RFC 6143 uses the password as a DES key, which limits it to 8 (7-bit) bytes. The VNC protocol can, however, support several different kinds of authentication, and several have been defined as vendor extensions. See e.g. http://sourceforge.net/p/tigervnc/code/HEAD/tree/rfbproto/rfbproto.rst#security-types . Restricting to non-standard authentication types, would, of course, impact interoperability. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
