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NAME

       pwd_controlaula — create a file with a VNC encrypted password

SYNOPSIS

       pwd_controlaula passwd-file passwd

DESCRIPTION

       pwd_controlaula  allows  you  to  set  the  password used to access VNC
       desktops.  It stores an obfuscated version of the given  passwd in  the
       given passwd-file file. So, a vnc server will be able to start with the
       -passwd command using the given password.

       This small application is based on the vncpasswd from  the  vnc4-common
       Debian package.

       The  password  must be at least six characters long, and only the first
       eight characters are significant.  Note that the stored password is not
       encrypted  securely  - anyone who has access to this file can trivially
       find out the plaintext password.  However, when accessing a VNC desktop
       a challenge-response mechanism is used over the wire making it hard for
       anyone to crack the password simply by snooping on the network.

OPTIONS

       This program has these mandatory arguments:

       passwd-file file where the encrypted password for vncserver use.

       passwd plain text password to be encrypted.

SEE ALSO

       The official ControlAula documentation:
              http://www.itais.net/help/en/

AUTHOR

       pwd_controlaula was written by José L. Redrejo Rodríguez

       This manual page was written by José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo  at
       debian.org>  for  the  Debian  system  (but  may  be  used  by others).
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify  this  document
       under  the  terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
       any later version published by the Free Software  Foundation;  with  no
       Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

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