this patch is for help document thanks very much At 2016-06-16 17:39:12, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 05:58:06PM +0800, longguang.yue wrote: >> From 98a2e7784f14f1c69dbb93e0bfb6539987aa16d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: yuelongguang <yuelongguang(a)le.com&gt; >> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:29:57 +0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] add default mapping of credentials to machine >> >> --- >> src/util/virauthconfig.c | 7 +++++++ >> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > >Thanks, I've applied this patch, with an expanded commit message: > >commit 743db933ed6bbcdd3ca87dd43c8164f6992bc89e >Author: yuelongguang <yuelongguang(a)le.com&gt; >Date: Mon Jun 13 17:29:57 2016 +0800 > > add default mapping of credentials to machine > > In the auth config file, it is currently required to have > an entry for each hostname to connect to, eg > > [auth-libvirt-prod1.example.com] > credentials=prod > > This is inconvenient when there are large numbers of machines > all with the same credentials. Add support for a default > entry: > > [auth-default] > credentials=prod > > >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 :|

From c1def510347f4d45da696a612d04d3fa3917fcd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yuelongguang <yuelongguang(a)le.com&gt; Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:20:24 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] add help document relevant to default mapping of credentials to machines * src/util/virauthconfig.c --- docs/auth.html.in | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/auth.html.in b/docs/auth.html.in index 37f2978..bdd5fc2 100644 --- a/docs/auth.html.in +++ b/docs/auth.html.in @@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ password=letmein [credentials-dev] username=joe -password=hello</pre> +password=hello + +[credentials-defgrp] +username=defuser +password=defpw</pre> <p> The second set of groups provide mappings of credentials to @@ -90,7 +94,8 @@ credentials=$CREDENTIALS</pre> <p> For example, following the previous example, here is how to - list some machines + map some machines. For convenience libvirt supports default mapping + of credentials to machines: </p> <pre> @@ -106,8 +111,15 @@ credentials=test [auth-libvirt-prod1.example.com] credentials=prod +[auth-libvirt-default] +credentials=defgrp + [auth-esx-dev1.example.com] -credentials=dev</pre> +credentials=dev + +[auth-esx-default] +credentials=defgrp</pre> + <p> The following service types are known to libvirt