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11-25-2011

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sagoiz

Hello again kopper!

I think the command line option is -rfbauth. So it should be like

Code:

server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -rfbauth /root/.vnc/passwd

Regards

OK looks like kinda working

Now my VNCViewer prompts me for a password Smilie

but I get Authentication Failure

As I understand that password is the one set using vncpasswd command but I just used 12345678 as my password and not I get Authentication Failure

something I am missing?

thanks

---------- Post updated at 02:37 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:34 AM ----------

done

I just needed to assign permissions to the passwd file generated by vncpasswd this way

chown nobody /etc/vnc/passwd

done I can successfully login

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VNCCAPTURE(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    VNCCAPTURE(1p)

NAME

       vnccapture - Capture a screenshot via VNC

SYNOPSIS

	vnccapture [options] [numcaptures]

	Options:
	  -P --password=str   password for the VNC server, if applicable
	  -H --host=str       address of VNC server (default: 'localhost')
	  -p --port=num       TCP port for VNC server (default: 5900)
	  -d --depth=8|16|24  screen depth for capture (default: 24)
	  -t --type=ext       image type for output (default: 'png')
	  -C --cursor	      include the mouse cursor in the image
	  -o --outfile	      capture to the specified path
			      otherwise capture to "snapshot<num>.<type>"
	  -v --verbose	      print status and diagnostics to STDOUT
	  -h --help	      verbose help message
	  -V --version	      print the Net::VNC version

DESCRIPTION

       Connect to a VNC server and capture the screen one or more times.  The output is written to, for example, "snapshot0001.png".  The number
       is the sequence of captures and the extension is specified by the "--type" argument.

       The "--type" argument can be any format that Image::Imlib2 can support.

SEE ALSO

       Net::VNC

       Image::Imlib2

AUTHOR

       Chris Dolan, cdolan@cpan.org

perl v5.12.4							    2011-10-31							    VNCCAPTURE(1p)