Re: Proposed libguestfs API for implementing libvirt virConnectOpenAuth

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 10/13/2012 05:31 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> 
> Does libvirt (or policy kit?) provide any mechanism for caching these
> credentials within the same process, so that we don't have to provide
> the same creds back to libvirt for multiple connections?
> 

Yeah, that's the 'keep' in 'auth_admin_keep' in libvirt's policykit rules:

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=daemon/libvirtd.policy.in

But libvirt only enables it for local, active sessions, which doesn't include
SSH logins for example. libvirt should s/auth_admin/auth_admin_keep/g

- Cole


--
libvir-list mailing list
libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list


[Index of Archives]     [Virt Tools]     [Libvirt Users]     [Lib OS Info]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Big List of Linux Books]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]