On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 17:09:18 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 11:47:09AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> The example gives the user authorized to work with the domain permission
> to open the graphics socket. Since the graphics socket may be protected
> with a password it makes sense to grant the user the
> 'domain.read-secure' permission to fetch the password for the graphics
> object.
>
> This also goes along with e.g. 'domain.send-input' and
> 'domain.screenshot' as they'll allow the user to interact with the
> domain even if they didn't have the password.
The password isn't required, as you can use virDomainOpenGraphics
to connect when its a local display, and that's allowed via the
domain.open-graphics permission. virt-viewer at least will use
So in such case authentication is not needed? e.g. if you setup a
password regardles of that?