Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] support for unsetting the VNC password from the monitor.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:34:18PM -0800, Nolan wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> > How about just making it parse quotes for the password, so you could
> > do 
> > 
> >   change vnc password ""
> > 
> > and thus have it set to the empty string. This would also let people
> > have passwords with spaces in them
> 
> An excellent suggestion.  So excellent in fact, that it already works
> with qemu as is.

I aim to please :-)

> I rescind my request to apply this patch.  Either quotes being parsed by
> the monitor is a relatively new phenomenon, or I spaced pretty badly
> when I wrote this last summer.

This was news to me too! It is probably worth mentioning this explicitly
in the qemu-doc.texi  documentation file on the 'change vnc passwd' 
command, if you wish to provide a patch to that.

Regards,
Daniel
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