Re: [libvirt] Web Interface -> LibVirt Communication?

>On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:57:11AM -0700, Michael March wrote: > >>This might not be the 'right way' but here is how I handled >>communication to each Xen instance my web interface is managing. I used >>the ssh style connect string.. even if it was a local instance.. here is >>a line ripped right from my code: >> >>server_list={"michael":['127.0.0.1',""], "tito":['192.168.101.5',""], >>"jermaine":['192.168.101.6',""} >> >>.. then later in my code... >> >>for server in server_list: >> server_list[server][1] = >>libvirt.open('xen+ssh://root@'+server_list[server][0]+'/') >> > >I wouldn't recommend using the SSH transport for serious management >tools. If you want a simple username/password based auth scheme which >is trivial to setup, then the Digest-MD5 scheme is best bet. The >SSH tunnel capability is handy for ad-hoc sysadmin work, but it suffers >from having a high initial connection overhead and poor diagnostics >when things go wrong. > >Digest-MD5 is easy to setup, only requiring you to create a user on each >managed node which your app will authenticate as: > > http://libvirt.org/auth.html#ACL_server_username > When I looked at this it *seemed* you had to embed the username and password someplace in your code or a config file... did I get the wrong impression?