Re: [PATCH] add support for libssh2 password from auth file

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On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 06/28/2013 12:28 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On 06/27/13 14:31, David Maciejak wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was discussing with Daniel about the best way to pass the ssh password
>> when using such kind of uri:
>> 'xen+libssh2://root@192.168.0.10?sshauth=password
>> <http://root@192.168.0.10?sshauth=password>'
>>
>> As it seems passing the password in the uri is not a good option, maybe we
>> can grab it from auth conf ? it seems it's not the case as now (tell me
>> if i am wrong).
> I was planing on doing this stuff, but never managed to finish this.
>
>> So enclosed a patch to add this feature.
>>
>> As you can see in virnetclient.c there is no virAuthGetPassword call, so
>> the authfile is never used.
>>
>> The patch enclosed is modifying the function prototype to add
>> virConnectPtr parameter (so remote_driver.c virNetClientNewLibSSH2 call
>> has to be updated too and the corresponding .h too).
>>
>> Once we have access to virConnectPtr, as you will see in the patch we
>> can check if authMethods is set to 'password' and grab the password from
>> auth file by calling virAuthGetPassword.
>>
>>
> please use git format-patch and send-email in the future, it makes
> reviewing easier.
>
> See the attached patch for the review.
>
> Peter
>
>
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Hi all,
Peter, you could have reformatted it for better replies on separate code
hunks ;-) Like I did now ;-)


Thanks for the review guys.
...

I suggest tokenizing it after commas, like I'm doing for my personal projects


I agree with Michal,  using strstr instead of strcmp has also some drawbacks.


regards,
david
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