On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 05:46:31PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
- return g_strdup_printf("sh -c 'which virt-ssh-helper 1>/dev/null 2>&1; " - "if test $? = 0; then " + return g_strdup_printf("sh -c 'if which virt-ssh-helper >/dev/null 2>&1; then " "%s; " "else " "%s; "
I understand the motivation, but please don't change this. Applications like OpenStack have configured ssh authorized_keys files with the specific command that libvirt invokes. So changes like this will break their SSH configs. We caused this pain when we first introduced the virt-ssh-helper, but at least that was giving them a functional improvement and they could use a URI parameter to force the old command string. This change is just prettiness for no functional improvement so is not worth breaking apps for.
Can you please provide pointers to the OpenStack implementation of this and the issue that resulted from introducing virt-ssh-helper? AFAICT the only way to restrict what commands a user can run after successfully authenticating is to specify command=... before the corresponding key in authorized_keys and I don't see how this change, or indeed the one that happened when virt-ssh-helper was added, could interfere with that. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization