On Fri, Dec 08, 2006, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:29:38PM -0500, Gary Siao wrote: > > hi gurus > > > > i am a newbie to XEN and would like to know if there's a way to allow > > non-root user to use the XM command to stop and start XEN VM hosts. > > No standard tools allow this[1]. Letting non-root users stop/start guests is > a potential security hole, because the back-end drivers for the guest access > many privileged files / system resources in Dom0. You could also use sudo. xm is just 'another command' (with, as Daniel said, all the potential security issues.) Adrian -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
