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Bug 162905 - net-misc/vino "forgets" authentication password
Summary: net-misc/vino "forgets" authentication password
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2007-01-20 10:19 UTC by Henrique Rodrigues
Modified: 2007-02-13 18:22 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Password-fix (vino-password-fix.patch,358 bytes, patch)
2007-01-21 23:42 UTC, Sander Brabander
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Description Henrique Rodrigues 2007-01-20 10:19:31 UTC
I use vino for my VNC needs. Unfortunately, it only allows the first login, after that the VNC client says that it can't authenticate - meaning "bad password".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure vino to accept password protected connections, with a password of your choice
2. close the vino configuration window
3. make a VNC connection to the vino server
4. close that connection
5. make another VNC connection to the vino server

Actual Results:  
The client can't authenticate the user.

Expected Results:  
The client should authenticate the user correcly.

It seems that vino has a problem maintaining the password between several tries. Examples:

a) if you make the first connection and then change the password, it will accept the second connection too. You've actually resetted the password and this is a first connection for the second password.

b) if the vino configuration window is left open, vino will not "forget" the password. If the window is closed, vino will "forget" the password after the first login.

There seems to be a bug fix in the Ubuntu bugtracking system:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/65795

The also consider it a security bug, because the password gets changed without the user knowing it.
Comment 1 Sander Brabander 2007-01-21 23:42:56 UTC
Created attachment 107733 [details, diff]
Password-fix

This is a patch to fix this problem.
Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-30 21:14:23 UTC
Okay, fixed.
Comment 3 Taylor Braun-Jones 2007-02-13 18:22:04 UTC
Thanks, the patch worked for me too. Was starting to get really annoying...