Re: [libvirt] libguestfs integration: rich disk access for libvirt applications
On 09/28/2011 11:52 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> We do have a historical syntax from Xen paravirt which lets us
call out
> to a helper at boot time, namely the "<bootloader>" element. With
Xen
> this is typically something like pygrub, or pxegrub, which does some
> work and writes out a kernel+initrd into temporary files, and prints
> the file paths + any kernel args on stdout.
>
> We could just wire up this concept in KVM too without any real trouble,
> and then we could have guestfs-bootloader script todo the magic setup
I'm fine with this.
Are there security implications to allowing users to add<bootloader>
clauses pointing at random scripts that get run on remote machines as
different users?
No more so than the fact that we let random clients specify <disk>
devices to random devices on remote machines. Right now, granting
non-read-only connection rights to a user effectively gives them root
access to the machine. There's eventual plans to further restrict
things via per-command ACLs, and this should be considered during those
plans, but until then, I don't see it as any larger a hole than anything
else already present in libvirt design.
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