from the secret journal of Mac Reiter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> VNC only uses the first 8 characters of the password, to maintain
> compatibility with some old pathetic implementation of a password routine
> on one of the hundreds of platforms that it supports. Since your password
> is 9 characters long, you could put anything you want for the last
> character. And it doesn't matter what the preceding characters were. I
> have noticed that when my password is longer than 8 characters, I have to
> enter at least 9 characters for it to be accepted. I have not tested to
> see if the 9th character can be random.
so vnc uses crypt()? i thought it used a challenge-response system of the
author's own design.
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Jacob Kuntz
Technology Director
The Real Estate Company
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