Hello, Jonathan. I'm afraid I don't necessarily have an answer for your crypto question, but I do have a question of my own for you. If this machine is not on a network, how are you going to connect to it via VNC ? And if security is not an issue, why do you need to encrypt the passwords ? By the way, I just thought of something. The publicly available version of AT&T's VNC does not come with CORBA enabled. I think that what you are trying to achieve would require the CORBA component. I can't say this is fact, but I suspect that it is so. You might want to try a search for one of the other versions of VNC that are out there such as TridiaVNC, and see if they have the added funcionality you require. By the way, I set VNC up on my Linux box to offer an xdm/kdm logon screen when anyone connects. Therefore the VNC connection requires no password or user ID at all, and you just logon to the machine as normal. It is not the fastest of X servers, but it is cheap and functional. But I'm still confused about how you plan to connect to a non-networked PC using VNC. Do you have a special supply of PsychicBaseT NICs ? Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: suse-linux-e-return-52339-stuart=yorkshirepudding.com@lists.suse.com [mailto:suse-linux-e-return-52339-stuart=yorkshirepudding.com@lists.suse .com]On Behalf Of Jonathan Wilson Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 3:34 PM To: suse-linux-e@lists.suse.com Subject: [SLE] [OT] VNC password encryption? Hey, I am setting up a box for some people who are not used to Linux. The box it NOT on a network, and security is really not an issue at all (there's nothing of value on the box, and since it's not networked it can't be used against other computers). Because of this the username is "users" and the password is "users". These are the kind of people who things it's weird to have to use a password at all :-). Anyway, they're going to be using VNC, and the VNC password needs to match the regular logon password. But VNC won't take "users", it says the password is too short. I was hoping I could use htpassword to encrypt the password and overwrite VNC's, but it looks like VNC doesn't use standard UNIX crypt(). Does any one know what it does use, or another way around this? TIA ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq