On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:38:26PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:26:35AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 05:35:38PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
> > > Hi, all
> > >
> > > We have some new requirements of preferences, I listed
> > > which of them I known, and think is useful as follows:
> > >
> > > 1) for the path of x509 certificate and keys of client
> > >
> > > The path of x509 certificate and keys of client is hard
> > > coded in remote driver. e.g.
> > >
> > > /* Defaults for PKI directory. */
> > > # define LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR SYSCONFDIR "/pki"
> > > # define LIBVIRT_CACERT LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR "/CA/cacert.pem"
> > > # define LIBVIRT_CLIENTKEY LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR "/libvirt/private
> > > /clientkey.pem"
> > > # define LIBVIRT_CLIENTCERT LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR "/libvirt/clientcert.pem"
> >
> > We can't assume one set of certs/keys is suitable for all
> > URIs, so making this a preference setting doesn't help. There
> > needs to be a parameter in the URI to specify a cert/key name
> > to override the defaults on a per-connection basis
>
> As much as I disliked adding long ugly filenames to the URI, I do not
> see any way around it now. A single client application may need to open
> two connections with different cert/key pairs, so a single client.conf
> or environment variables won't cut it.
NB, I wasn't really suggesting adding the long filenames. Instead
I'd suggest adding some cert "name" tag, and use that to formulate
the filenames according to some pattern,
eg
$HOME/.libvirt/$name/cacert.pem
$HOME/.libvirt/$name/clientcert.pem
$HOME/.libvirt/$name/clientkey.pem
Daniel
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