Bug 427478

Summary:	vncpasswd program is missing from vnc install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joe Totale <octo_realm>
Component:	vnc	Assignee:	Adam Tkac <atkac>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	johan-fedora, ovasik
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Description Joe Totale 2008-01-04 03:31:28 UTC

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Description of problem:
I wanted to set a password at ~/.vnc/passwd for vnc viewer only (had not installed vnc server).  $vncpasswd was not a recognised command, and yum-exteder did not list vncpasswd in the files for vnc-4.1.2-23.fc8.src.rpm

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vnc-4.1.2-23.fc8.src.rpm

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install vnc-4x.fc8.src.rpm
2.$vncpasswd
3.

Actual Results:
'command not found' error message

Expected Results:
vncpasswd should have run

Additional info:

Comment 1 Johan Kok 2008-01-13 20:49:33 UTC

Did you install the source rpm or the binary rpm for your arch? 

The vncpasswd utility is included in the vnc-server package. Please confirm that you have that package 
installed (with 'rpm -q vnc-server' for example) and install the package if it it missing (with 'yum install 
vnc-server'). Then, try again to use vncpasswd.

Can you report back if this resolved your issue?

Comment 2 Joe Totale 2008-01-14 12:20:31 UTC

I originally installed vnc-4x.fc8.src.rpm for Fedora 8.

At the time I resolved the problem by installing vnc-server which did provide 
vncpasswd.  After checking, I think that vncpasswd should be available to 
users of vncviewer who do not have vnc-server installed.

Thx

Comment 3 Adam Tkac 2008-01-14 15:17:55 UTC

yes, you're right that vncpasswd is in vnc-server package. I'm not sure why you
need it in vnc package. Do you have any reason?

Comment 4 Joe Totale 2008-01-14 17:24:11 UTC

I was using vnc to view another desktop (my headless server) and wanted to 
tell vnc to use the password in the ~/.vnc/passwd file to help automate the 
process.  I thought that the vnc package provides vncpasswd on other distros 
I've used.  If I'm wrong about that, and vncpasswd only comes as part of vnc-
server, then my apologies for incorrectly reporting the bug.

Comment 5 Adam Tkac 2008-01-21 13:05:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> I was using vnc to view another desktop (my headless server) and wanted to 
> tell vnc to use the password in the ~/.vnc/passwd file to help automate the 
> process.  I thought that the vnc package provides vncpasswd on other distros 
> I've used.  If I'm wrong about that, and vncpasswd only comes as part of vnc-
> server, then my apologies for incorrectly reporting the bug.

This is quite delicious problem. vncpasswd program can be only in one package. I
think this is more vnc-server program than client. So please install vnc-server
package if you need it or simply create ~/.vnc/passwd on server and copy that
file to client.