Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] man: virt-admin: Mention monolithic daemon URIs

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 18:14:08 +0100, Erik Skultety wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 04:34:03PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > Hint users that they can use 'virt-admin' also for the new monolithic > > daemons. > > > > Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038045 > > Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; > > --- > > docs/manpages/virt-admin.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ > > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [...] > > +Running ``virt-admin`` requires root privileges when communicating with the > > +system instance of a daemon (*URI* ending in ``/system``) due to the > > +communications channels used to talk to the daemon. > > + > > +Consider changing the *unix_sock_group* ownership setting to grant access to > > +specific set of users or modifying *unix_sock_rw_perms* permissions. Daemon > > +configuration file provides more information about setting permissions. > > ^This last paragraph is not true with virt-admin, because it's not subject to > any authentication mechanism we use by design, especially with socket > activation where the socket will always have 0600 permissions and only root can > access it. Without socket activation there's the 'unix_sock_admin_perms' > setting (beats me why we/I introduced it in the first place), but there is no > group ownership whatsoever and indeed if you look at remoteAdmClientNew, you'll > see we're doing the following: > > if (geteuid() != clientuid) > ... Hmm, this commit is merely re-indenting and moving the text. I think I'll be able to justtify it better if I remove it first by a separate commit and let this commit just do the URI changes.