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disabling local password

Should you have problems with the MS logon plugin, here's the place to look for help or report issues
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turbokitty
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disabling local password

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Is there any easy way to disable the internal authentication in VNC and only use MSlogonII ACL authentication?
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Re: disabling local password

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nope. The classical password has to be there as well if you are using mslogon
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turbokitty
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Re: disabling local password

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That was incredible fast , thanks.

Follow-up question. Can I change the password on the *server* from the command-line? Does it require the service to be restarted?
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Re: disabling local password

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Ugh, that VNCpwd is kind of ugly. It's not silent and doesn't seem to work that well.

What do you make of this?:
http://www.vncscan.com/UltraVNC/UltraVNCReg.htm

"MSLogonRequired : Setting this registry entry to 1 force to use of ms-logon and disable vnc passwd checking"
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Re: disabling local password

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you can try that reg setting if you wish. I just know the out of the box installation does not support it..:)
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Marscha
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Re: disabling local password

Post by Marscha »

turbokitty,

If you use ms-logon, the VNC "classic" password will never be really used.
But there's a check when the VNC server starts if the password is set.
This check is performed always, even with ms-logon. (Seems to be for historical reasons)

So it should be sufficient to have anything set for the classic password.
Just make sure that HKLM\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\Default\Password is filled with something (REG_BINARY).
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