[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I am not sure if this has been noticed, or if VNC does not like special
> characters as a password, but within the Win version I had set the password
> to "QPH@#as9%" without the "". When I use the viewer to access the server I
> can use ANY character as the last character and it will login successfully.
> I haven't played around with it much to see if I could change more than 1
> character at a time. For all I know this may be documented somewhere.
> I will play with it a little and report what happens. Are special characters
> not to be used?
Only the first 8 characters of any VNC-password are actually used,
regardless no matter what characters it contains. The reason for this is
the encryption block size, if I'm not mistaken.
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Harmen
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