Bug 884419

Summary:	[remote-viewer]remote-viewer should not prompt authentication when vnc uri contains password
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	zhe peng <zpeng>
Component:	virt-viewer	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version:	6.4	CC:	cfergeau, dblechte, dyasny
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Description zhe peng 2012-12-06 08:07:36 UTC

Description of problem:
if vnc uri contains right password, when use remote-viewer to connect guest,should not open input password dialog,if the password wrong,then open it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-0.5.2-16.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.10.2-11.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1:prepare a vnc guest with password

2:check the vnc uri
#virsh domdisplay rhel6.4 --include-password
vnc://:redhat.0.1:1
3: use the uri to connect guest
#remote-viewer vnc://:redhat.0.1:5901

Actual results:
Authentication dialog pop up

Expected results:
the password is correctly, so should not pop up the dialog

Additional info:
spice worked well

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2012-12-06 09:06:43 UTC

We explicitly refuse to support passwords in the URIs in virt-viewer - the fact that it works for SPICE is pure luck. This is very insecure and as a result we will not recommend or document its use.