Description of problem: Unable to connect to desktop computers running MacOS if user password is longer then eight characters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vinagre-3.22.0-15.fc31.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remote->Connect->Protocol->VNC->MacOS desktop address. 2. Username and password entry dialog is presented. Actual results: 3. Observe that password longer then eight characters is not accepted and connection fails with invalid credentials error. Expected results: 3. Sufficient length must be accepted. Additional info: remmina-1.3.6-1.fc31.x86_64 has no eight characters limitation and exhibit no problems connecting to MacOS remote desktop.
The eight characters limitation was intended as a standard, but unfortunately, various server and client implementations didn't follow. Besides, there are various authentication methods that are incompatible with this. For this reason, I proposed a discussion upstream in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vinagre/issues/17 If a consensus is reached on extending the limit, a fix would be a one-liner patch, that I would happily backport to F31.
This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
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