password exist but still prompting

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S Tan

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Jan 17, 2025, 2:02:56 PM1/17/25

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I copied a created password into .vnc/passwd yet when I run vncserver, it will prompt for password. I've copied that file to different locations tigervnc/passw and .config/tigervnc/passwd as pointed out by some documentation and it still prompts. I am deploying to many jetsons so would like to just have it copied over. Looking through the mess of code didn't help. What am I doing wrong?

Pierre Ossman

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Jan 28, 2025, 4:38:36 AM1/28/25

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vncviewer does not read any password file by default. So you'll need to
specify the path to that file on the command line:

vncviewer -PasswordFile ~/.vnc/passwd

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