I have been fighting with enabling and securing access to our exported display :0 (via vnc.so and XF86Config) on all our SuSE distributions in our lab, including SLES8, SLES 9, and the various flavors of SuSe 9.x.
I saw the web site at http://www.realvnc.com/v4/x0.html and had tried various combinations of the following options: Option "passwordFile" "/.vnc/passwd" Option "securityTypes" "vncAuth" and using various file permissions on the password file and parent directories, but each time it let me in without requiring a vnc session password, with no visible warnings or errors about the passwordFile option. I discovered by google and trial that I could possibly use other options available to normal command-line versions of Xvnc. My Xvnc doesn't show a "passwordFile" option, but an "rfbAuth", "auth" and "loginAuth" option, so I tried: Option "rfbAuth" "/.vnc/passwd" And it WORKED!! I don't know what the other options do or when I would need them since useful documention is a PITA to find. So are the VNC versions in the SuSE distributions whacked or is the documention at the link above just wrong!? I have spent a lot of time trying this out and am very FRUSTRATED at the lack of explanation in the documentation on configuring this method of access, including the use and placement of the options and sections, including but not limited to: Option "usevnc" //used in the Driver section of the video driver being used Option "securityTypes" "none|???vncAuth|???" //not a lot of info on what securityTypes are really supported //What other options are useful to know????? //New sections //This one is apparently optional Section "InputDevice" Identifier "vncMouse" Driver "rfbMouse" EndSection //Not optional if you want to type. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "vncKeyboard" Driver "rfbkeyb" EndSection //Put these in the ServerLayout Section InputDevice "vncKeyboard" "ExtraKeyboard" //Not optional. No keyboard input if not used InputDevice "vncMouse" "ExtraPointer" //optional Mouse seems to work without it The documentation at http://www.realvnc.com/v4/x0.html need a LOT of enhancment to explain the configuration and options in more detail. What is there is not sufficient to get even a basic setup working. Why does rfbAuth work and passwordFile not? Why does the mouse work if I don't load the rfbMouse driver, but the keyboard not work without the rfbkeyb driver? Regardless, the full-access and view-only access passwords are nice, once I got it working. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
