[winswitch] What is the proper format the password files?

[Antoine Martin]

On 17/02/18 20:06, vfclists . via shifter-users wrote:
> I  created a username/password combination of the form onetwo:bucklemyshoe,
> ie the password file contains the single line 'onetwo|bucklemyshoe'
> 
> Whenever I try to connect the message appears on the logon page:
> 
> You were disconnected for the following reason:
> 
> invalid challenge response
> The logs display the following message
> 
>  Authentication required by password file authenticator module
>   sending challenge for username 'onetwo' using hmac+sha256 digest
>  Warning: hmac+sha256 challenge for 'onetwo' does not match
>  Warning: authentication failed
>   invalid challenge response
>  Disconnecting client Protocol(ws websocket: 111.111.111.111:14333 <-
> 222.222.222.222:35555):
>   invalid challenge response
> 
> It makes no difference whether ' Insecure plain-text passwords' is checked
> or not.
> 
> The contents of the password file is not what xpra expects. Is the actual
> format documented somewhere?
https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Authentication

> Is there an utility or script to create them
> in the right format?No tool needed:
echo -n "bucklemyshoe" > yourpasswordfile.txt

Cheers
Antoine