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RE: VNC Password



At 2:22 PM -0600 3/25/05, McDaneld, Scott wrote:
I would be curious where the VNC password for ARD is even stored.

That one's easy (since I was just looking for it last week). /Library/Preferences/com.apple.VNCSettings.txt

Note it's readable by root/wheel only.

If you read the Kickstart script included with ARD, it shows this file and what permissions it sets on it when modifying that password. It also indicates you must first encrypt the password before having Kickstart apply it as Kickstart will only pass your input directly to the file (does not encrypt). So, if you used Kickstart to pass the phrase "mypass" to it, the text file would show, in plain text, the same phrase instead of the encrypted one.
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Jeramey Valley
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H. H. Dow High School
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