Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] auth patch

[Anthony Liguori <anthony codemonkey ws>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:52:48PM -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote:
>   
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > Here is the initial draft for the authentication on gtk-vnc.
> > Well, i'd like to comment it here, but it's too late and i need to
> > sleep :)
> >
> > Let's discuss it here, or, eventually on IRC.
> >     
>
> I've spent much of this afternoon implementing a more advanced / flexible
> callback based approach to requesting authentication info. With some funky
> main loop integration with a custom GSource, there's no need to exit and
> restart the co-routine while getting auth data. The co-routine simply
> drops itself into a dormant state waiting for the app to supply neccessary
> auth data. This has let me serve 3 different models for application
> integration. The app can supply the auth data ahead of time - eg if they 
> already have a password from the command line, or another data store. Or
> the app can get a callback and set the auth data synchronously directly
> from the callback. Or the app can get a callback, and go away and prompt
> for the auth data from the user, and supply it back to the VNC widget
> asynchronously. I've also knocked up 2 example apps, one in C, one in
> python which use this & it works very effectively.
>   

This sounds awesome!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I need to do a few hours clean up of the code which I hacked around a
> little bit, then I'll post the patches to the list
>
> Regards,
> Dan. 
>