Changeset 33228 in vbox for trunk/doc

Timestamp:

Oct 19, 2010 1:12:31 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

VBoxAuthSimple now requires SHA-256 hashes, no more cleartext passwords

File:

• trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Frontends.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Frontends.xml

@@ -391 +391 @@
             Last but not least, you have to configure users and passwords. Here is an example
             for the user "john" with the password "secret":
-            <computeroutput>VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxAuthSimple/users/john" "secret"</computeroutput>
-            To specify an empty password, use the special reserved value
-            <computeroutput>[NULL]</computeroutput>.
+            <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands passwordhash "secret"</computeroutput>
+            This will give you the hash value "2bb80d537b1da3e38bd30361aa855686bde0eacd7162fef6a25fe97bf527a25b"
+            which you set using
+            <computeroutput>VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxAuthSimple/users/john"
+            "2bb80d537b1da3e38bd30361aa855686bde0eacd7162fef6a25fe97bf527a25b"</computeroutput>.
             </para>
           </listitem>
@@ -409 +411 @@
         default "external authentication module with any other module. For this,
         VirtualBox provides a well-defined interface that allows you to write your
-        own authentication module; see <xref
-        linkend="vbox-authenticate-sdk" /> for details.</para>
+        own authentication module; see <xref linkend="vbox-authenticate-sdk" />
+        for details.</para>
     </sect2>