[Bug 510734] Review Request: x11vnc - VNC server for the current X11 session

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--- Comment #26 from Juha Tuomala <tuju at iki.fi>  2009-07-22 04:22:33 EDT ---
I just used this first time in my life and realized, there are many use cases
for this and those affects how this should be packaged and how people
installing and using it will see it. For now i think it splits to two:

- console user wants to share her screen, initiated locally
- remote support/administration over network, initiated remotely

Former already has a .desktop file in package, so assuming that she knows what
she's doing, that's tackled already.

My use case was, that I had to give remote support to running host over ssh
without local help. So I was a root and had to run it manually with correct
options. The biggest trouble was the MIT cookie handling (with -auth switch).
Also, this depends on two factors:

- user has not logged in, thus the dm cookie must be used.
- some user has logged in, the user's own cookie must be used.

Finding those cookies from the filesystem took the most of my time and for some
new admin it might be a point to ask for help. Cookie location is also dm
dependent and I think it would help a lot if there would be some kind of script
for this like:

/usr/sbin/vnc-share-display [<display num>]

which would figure out right options internally and could also take care of
authentication/password settings and possibly give example commands to be run
at client side to connect to that host (few clients, with and without ssh).

IMO this would save countless hours of people's time. What do you think?

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