RE: personal edition: password visible??

2006-10-19 Thread James Weatherall
Tyran, > While that may be true of current RealVNC installations, that has not > always been the case with VNC. Dieter stated that he's using VNC Personal Edition, which has always used registry permissions to protect sensitive settings such as the obfuscated password information. > Regardless,

RE: personal edition: password visible??

2006-10-19 Thread Tyran Ormond
On 02:18 PM 10/19/2006 +0100, it would appear that James Weatherall wrote: Tyran, > Regardless, if the current user can > read the key, the current user has full access to the clear text > password via SIW and likely other similar utilities. The current user can only read the relevant keys if t

launching VNC to specific address

2006-10-19 Thread Stan Wright
We are attempting to use the free VNC client from 4.0 What we wish to accomplish is to launch a VNC client session to a variable destination address. We are hoping there was a way to launch the .exe with a parameter of the IP address. Can anyone help here? Thanks Stan Wright Ontario Syste

RE: personal edition: password visible??

2006-10-19 Thread James Weatherall
Tyran, Your "fix" requires that the "second password" is passed to the server in the first place, so that it can decrypt the stored password in order to verify the user. This has the simple flaw that any user (even a non-Administrator) can run a server which requests the password, uses it to decr

Re: launching VNC to specific address

2006-10-19 Thread ·· ħþø ··
Stan Wright wrote: What we wish to accomplish is to launch a VNC client session to a variable destination address. We are hoping there was a way to launch the .exe with a parameter of the IP address. You have two options: - You can create a shortcut to the viewer. In the Properties > Shortcut

Re: RealVNC 4.1.2 does not work with MacOS 10.4.8

2006-10-19 Thread Alex Pelts
Since mac osx is bsd based you can easy compile the existing vnc server for unix. Regards, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as a quick follow-up on my previous email: I found a good VNC server for Mac OSX (OSXvnc V1.71) here: www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/index.html (I couldn't

Re: personal edition: password visible??

2006-10-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 19 October 2006 14:55, Tyran Ormond wrote: > On 02:18 PM 10/19/2006 +0100, it would appear that James Weatherall wrote: > >Tyran, > > > > > Regardless, if the current user can > > > read the key, the current user has full access to the clear text > > > password via SIW and likely other

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2006-10-19 Thread Adam Rigdon
I have a question regarding the VNC server icon in the tray. I'll explain what I use VNC for and then explain the problem. I work in a hospital with 1000+ PC's all running VNC server. when a user calls with a simple problem, we can usually VNC into their machine and fix the problem remotely. Wh