Bug#355619: /usr/bin/vnc4passwd: vncpasswd: fails on long passwords

2006-03-09 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi Ola, El jue, 09-03-2006 a las 18:31 +0100, Ola Lundqvist escribió: > Hi > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:51:30AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: > ...CUT... > > > only support their "corporate version" that have much better > > > authentication > > > and other features. VNC is open source software w

Bug#355619: /usr/bin/vnc4passwd: vncpasswd: fails on long passwords

2006-03-09 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi again, El jue, 09-03-2006 a las 18:31 +0100, Ola Lundqvist escribió: > Hi > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:51:30AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: > ...CUT... > > > only support their "corporate version" that have much better > > > authentication > > > and other features. VNC is open source software

Bug#355619: /usr/bin/vnc4passwd: vncpasswd: fails on long passwords

2006-03-09 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:51:30AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: ...CUT... > > only support their "corporate version" that have much better authentication > > and other features. VNC is open source software without support from > > upstream. > > I see... I didn't know that about upstream. > > W

Bug#355619: /usr/bin/vnc4passwd: vncpasswd: fails on long passwords

2006-03-08 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:52:00AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: > El mié, 08-03-2006 a las 22:17 +0100, Ola Lundqvist escribió: > > Hi > > > > I can imagine that there is no checks whatsoever in this tool about > > the input size. > > I'm not familiar with the authentication method used by VNC,

Bug#355619: /usr/bin/vnc4passwd: vncpasswd: fails on long passwords

2006-03-08 Thread Javier Kohen
El mié, 08-03-2006 a las 22:17 +0100, Ola Lundqvist escribió: > Hi > > I can imagine that there is no checks whatsoever in this tool about > the input size. I'm not familiar with the authentication method used by VNC, but I would expect it to be benefited from the additional entropy in a longer p

Bug#355619: /usr/bin/vnc4passwd: vncpasswd: fails on long passwords

2006-03-08 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi I can imagine that there is no checks whatsoever in this tool about the input size. I'll see if there is any easy fix for this. Have you determined how many characters is useful and work? Regards, // Ola On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:19:21PM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: > Package: vnc4-common >

Bug#355619: /usr/bin/vnc4passwd: vncpasswd: fails on long passwords

2006-03-06 Thread Javier Kohen
Package: vnc4-common Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-4 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/vnc4passwd -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Passing a long password to vncpasswd seems to drive it crazy. For instance, try with "invalid next size." It gives the following error here, whether the password