disabling local password

[turbokitty]

Is there any easy way to disable the internal authentication in VNC and only use MSlogonII ACL authentication?

[bevtech]

nope. The classical password has to be there as well if you are using mslogon

[turbokitty]

That was incredible fast , thanks.

Follow-up question. Can I change the password on the *server* from the command-line? Does it require the service to be restarted?

[turbokitty]

http://www.sysworksoft.net/products/vncpwd.html

How about this?

[turbokitty]

Ugh, that VNCpwd is kind of ugly. It's not silent and doesn't seem to work that well.

What do you make of this?:
http://www.vncscan.com/UltraVNC/UltraVNCReg.htm

"MSLogonRequired : Setting this registry entry to 1 force to use of ms-logon and disable vnc passwd checking"

[bevtech]

you can try that reg setting if you wish. I just know the out of the box installation does not support it..

[Marscha]

turbokitty,

If you use ms-logon, the VNC "classic" password will never be really used.
But there's a check when the VNC server starts if the password is set.
This check is performed always, even with ms-logon. (Seems to be for historical reasons)

So it should be sufficient to have anything set for the classic password.
Just make sure that HKLM\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\Default\Password is filled with something (REG_BINARY).