On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 01:42:12PM +0000, Jean-Pierre Ribeauville wrote: > Hi, > > > When trying to connect the HyperVisor from a binary > having setuid bit set , then I got following error: > > Unable to perform virConnectOpenReadOnly function error(internal > error: libvirt.so is not safe to use from setuid programs) > > My test software config is the following : > > > -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root 3374956 Feb 4 13:45 test > > As this test software needs S bit to be able to access O.S. > metrics counters , how may I use it to retrieve KVM metrics > counters ? You should re-write your app so that it does not need to have the setuid be present for everything it does. Create a tiny self-contained executable for *only* accessing OS metrics counters, so that bit can run setuid, and the main bulk of your app can run unprivileged. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
