Bug#400108: vino: password check broken?

[Holger Leskien]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:53:13PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006, Holger Leskien wrote:
> > at some point in the last weeks vino stopped working on my computer.
> > First I thought it might be a wrong password issue, but now I checked
> > more thoroughly. This is what the vino-server prints out:
> 
>  I have no idea what could have broken vino for you, but it works here.
>  With passwordless and password authentication.

I should have mentioned that I use the Windows client.

>  I'm using xvnc4viewer and connecting to localhost.  Could you try
>  creating a fresh new user on your host, setuping vino to accept
>  password or passwordless connections (with confirmation) and try to
>  connect to 127.0.0.1?
> 
>  Does password/passwordless help?  Does connecting to 127.0.0.1 help?
>  Does xvnc4viewer help?

Passwordless works of course. Password connections work with the new
user account locally and remote, but only until the vino-server is
restarted. At this point something gets damaged.

Greetings,

Holger