Re: [libvirt] [RFC] new preferences requirement

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:26:35AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 05:35:38PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote: > > Hi, all > > > > We have some new requirements of preferences, I listed > > which of them I known, and think is useful as follows: > > > > 1) for the path of x509 certificate and keys of client > > > > The path of x509 certificate and keys of client is hard > > coded in remote driver. e.g. > > > > /* Defaults for PKI directory. */ > > # define LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR SYSCONFDIR "/pki" > > # define LIBVIRT_CACERT LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR "/CA/cacert.pem" > > # define LIBVIRT_CLIENTKEY LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR "/libvirt/private > > /clientkey.pem" > > # define LIBVIRT_CLIENTCERT LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR "/libvirt/clientcert.pem" > > We can't assume one set of certs/keys is suitable for all > URIs, so making this a preference setting doesn't help. There > needs to be a parameter in the URI to specify a cert/key name > to override the defaults on a per-connection basis As much as I disliked adding long ugly filenames to the URI, I do not see any way around it now. A single client application may need to open two connections with different cert/key pairs, so a single client.conf or environment variables won't cut it.