Bug 1315088 - Add option to enable/disable automatic clipboard sharing in remote-viewer
Summary: Add option to enable/disable automatic clipboard sharing in remote-viewer
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: virt-viewer
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Daniel Berrangé
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Reported: 2016-03-06 14:13 UTC by Joel Rangsmo
Modified: 2020-09-11 10:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-09-11 10:25:06 UTC

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Description Joel Rangsmo 2016-03-06 14:13:47 UTC 
If remote-viewer connects to a host using the SPICE protocol and the remote host has the vdagent configured, automatic clipboard sharing is enabled.

This is not always a desirable behavior since the clients clipboard may contain sensitive information like credentials from a password manager.

I suggest that a feature is added in remote-viewer to enable/disable automatic clipboard sharing between the client and server. Such a feature exist in the spicy example client.
Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2020-09-11 10:25:06 UTC 
Support for toggling the shared clipboard was introduced in the 9.0 release of virt-viewer.
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