Bug#682555: gnome-boxes does not appear to support vnc passwords

[Roger Ricardo Moore]

Package: gnome-boxes
Version: 3.4.3+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

When I use gnome-boxes to access a remote system via vnc, if the remote system
is vnc password protected, instead of getting prompted for the password by
gnome-boxes, it simply hangs and does nothing.

Equally I am unable to pass the vnc password in the URL string e.g.
vnc://<user>:<password>@<remote host>:<port> OR
vnc://<remote host>:<port>?vncpasswd=<password>

which makes me think that this functionality is not implemented at all.
Since vnc password is a basic element of the vnc protocol, I think being able
to handle this feature is a useful addition to gnome-boxes.

Regards

Os



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk+illuminati-pf-amd64-hp6910p (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-boxes depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-2
ii  fuseiso                                      20070708-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-33
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-2
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                             1.10.8-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0                         1.2.0-2
ii  libcogl-pango0                               1.10.2-6
ii  libcogl9                                     1.10.2-6
ii  libffi5                                      3.0.10-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.32.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-2
ii  libgtk-vnc-2.0-0                             0.5.0-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               175-3.1
ii  libgvnc-1.0-0                                0.5.0-3
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           0.14.2-1
ii  libosinfo-1.0-0                              0.1.1-1
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-1                   0.12-4
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1                    0.12-4
ii  libtracker-sparql-0.14-0                     0.14.1-2
ii  libvirt-bin                                  0.9.12-3
ii  libvirt-glib-1.0-0                           0.0.8-1
ii  libvirt0                                     0.9.12-3
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcomposite1                               1:0.4.3-2
ii  libxdamage1                                  1:1.1.3-2
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0-4
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxml2                                      2.8.0+dfsg1-4
ii  mtools                                       4.0.17-1
ii  tracker                                      0.14.1-2

gnome-boxes recommends no packages.

gnome-boxes suggests no packages.

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