On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 08:51:26PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On the server end if you try to start the server with TLS enabled and you
> don't have the certs setup, you get a cryptic:
>
> gnutls_certificate_set_x509_trust_file: Error while reading file.
>
> Rather useless the gnutls error message not telling you what file was
> missing.
>
> Similarly with virsh:
>
> # ~/usr/bin/virsh --connect qemu://localhost/system list
> libvir: Remote error : Error while reading file.
>
> Since GNU TLS doesn't even tell you the actual problem - was it wrong
> permissions, or missing file altogether, I decided its better to do an
> explicit 'stat' check ahead of time.
>
> So now it gives:
>
> $ ~/usr/bin/virsh --connect qemu://celery.virt.boston.redhat.com/system start demo
> libvir: Remote error : Cannot access CA certificate
> '/home/berrange/usr/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem': No such file or directory (2)
>
> Or
>
> $ ~/usr/bin/virsh --connect qemu://celery.virt.boston.redhat.com/system start demo
> libvir: Remote error : Cannot access CA certificate
> '/home/berrange/usr/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem': Permission denied (13)
>
> Or in the daemon
>
> # /usr/sbin/libvirtd --listen
> Cannot access CA certificate '/home/berrange/usr/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem': No such file or directory (2)
>
All sounds good,
> +#define CHECK_CERT(type, file) \
> + do { if (stat(file, &sb) < 0) { \
> + qemudLog (QEMUD_ERR, "Cannot access " type " '%s': %s (%d)", \
> + file, strerror(errno), errno); \
> + return -1; \
> + } } while (0)
> +
Why not make a function instead of this convoluted construct ?
And same in src/remote_internal.c too.
I started writing a shell script which would allow checking the certificates,
and could be extended to generate some of them if needed. But good run-time
error sounds even better !
Daniel
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