Bug#483849: vino-preferences does not allow secure passwords

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Markus Schaber wrote:
> So because _some_ VNC servers are broken, you prevent users of sane VNC
> servers of using secure passwords?
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand that habit.

If Vino allowed to set a password longer than 8 chars, the following situation
could happen:

You set a 12 chars password in Vino. Then you try to connect to it using a
client which truncates the password to the first 8 chars following the protocol.
So you won't be able to connect to it.

If Vino prevents you from setting such a long password it also prevents from
this situation to happen.

Feel free to reopen the bug if you think that's not reasonable.

Cheers,
Emilio

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