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Bug 316043

Summary: net-misc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1 - vncviewer won't accept -user param as manpage say
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Enrique Domínguez <enrique_pinos>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) <armin76>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Enrique Domínguez 2010-04-19 01:13:23 UTC
run vncviewer like this:
$ vncviewer -user somename 10.1.1.1:0
program report unknown param:
TightVNC Viewer version 1.3.10

Usage: vncviewer [<OPTIONS>] [<HOST>][:<DISPLAY#>]
       vncviewer [<OPTIONS>] [<HOST>][::<PORT#>]
       vncviewer [<OPTIONS>] -listen [<DISPLAY#>]
       vncviewer -help

<OPTIONS> are standard Xt options, or:
        -via <GATEWAY>
        -shared (set by default)
        -noshared
        -viewonly
        -fullscreen
        -noraiseonbeep
        -passwd <PASSWD-FILENAME> (standard VNC authentication)
        -encodings <ENCODING-LIST> (e.g. "tight copyrect")
        -bgr233
        -owncmap
        -truecolour
        -depth <DEPTH>
        -compresslevel <COMPRESS-VALUE> (0..9: 0-fast, 9-best)
        -quality <JPEG-QUALITY-VALUE> (0..9: 0-low, 9-high)
        -nojpeg
        -nocursorshape
        -x11cursor
        -autopass

Option names may be abbreviated, e.g. -bgr instead of -bgr233.
See the manual page for more information.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.vncviewer -user somename 10.1.1.1:0
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
TightVNC Viewer version 1.3.10

Usage: vncviewer [<OPTIONS>] [<HOST>][:<DISPLAY#>]
       vncviewer [<OPTIONS>] [<HOST>][::<PORT#>]
       vncviewer [<OPTIONS>] -listen [<DISPLAY#>]
       vncviewer -help

<OPTIONS> are standard Xt options, or:
        -via <GATEWAY>
        -shared (set by default)
        -noshared
        -viewonly
        -fullscreen
        -noraiseonbeep
        -passwd <PASSWD-FILENAME> (standard VNC authentication)
        -encodings <ENCODING-LIST> (e.g. "tight copyrect")
        -bgr233
        -owncmap
        -truecolour
        -depth <DEPTH>
        -compresslevel <COMPRESS-VALUE> (0..9: 0-fast, 9-best)
        -quality <JPEG-QUALITY-VALUE> (0..9: 0-low, 9-high)
        -nojpeg
        -nocursorshape
        -x11cursor
        -autopass

Option names may be abbreviated, e.g. -bgr instead of -bgr233.
See the manual page for more information.


Expected Results:  
password would be requested for connection

I saw similar forum post from suse, but no solution found.

$emerge --info
Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:15:03 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6-r1, 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m32"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m32"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--load-average=4 -j"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo "
LANG="en_US.iso88591"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en es es_ES"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/binpackages"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acpi alsa apic berkdb cli cracklib cups custom-cflags custom-optimization cxx dbus doc gdbm gnome gpm gtk hal iconv mmx mmxext modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia opengl openmp pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd threads unicode x86 xorg xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en es es_ES" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="epson2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-29 15:25:07 UTC
This goes to upstream, we don't fix software bugs, we only apply patches if they are available.