Bug 49085

Summary:	support username for authentication
Product:	Spice	Reporter:	David Jaša <jasa.david>
Component:	protocol	Assignee:	Spice Bug List <spice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	will
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description David Jaša 2012-04-23 11:19:12 UTC

While username is not necessary for any Spice-based product now, it would be useful for some possible future uses like remote access to server management consoles so spice protocol could incorporate it for such cases. Virt-viewer already can ask for username if needed so the only server-side changes would be needed to have this implemented fully and they can be postponed to the time when sombody wants to leverage it.

Comment 1 Marc-Andre Lureau 2012-04-23 12:38:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> While username is not necessary for any Spice-based product now, it would be
> useful for some possible future uses like remote access to server management
> consoles so spice protocol could incorporate it for such cases. Virt-viewer
> already can ask for username if needed so the only server-side changes would be
> needed to have this implemented fully and they can be postponed to the time
> when sombody wants to leverage it.

That doesn't really fit with Spice atm. Unless we have a clear plan on how we want to dispatch a connexion to different servers/session, it doesn't quite work.

I believe VNC being implemented at a higher level was able to have services/proxy to redirect a connexion to a particular session. But Spice isn't at this level.

Comment 2 Will Thompson 2012-11-21 17:45:45 UTC

*** Bug 39070 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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