On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 07:44:44PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 10/13/2012 05:31 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Does libvirt (or policy kit?) provide any mechanism for caching these credentials within the same process, so that we don't have to provide the same creds back to libvirt for multiple connections?
Yeah, that's the 'keep' in 'auth_admin_keep' in libvirt's policykit rules:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=daemon/libvirtd.policy.in
But libvirt only enables it for local, active sessions, which doesn't include SSH logins for example. libvirt should s/auth_admin/auth_admin_keep/g
So if I understand correctly, how about this patch? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top