We currently refuse to connect to remote libvirtd over SSH if we see the path ends in /session. Earlier on though we checked for /session and set the VIR_DRV_OPEN_REMOTE_USER flag. There is one subtle distinction though with the test driver. All test URIs are marked with this flag, regardless of whether the URI indicates a local or remote connection. Previously a local connection to the test driver would have used the unprivileged libvirtd while a remote connection would have tried the privileged libvirtd. With this we are consistent and use the unprivileged for both local & remote, if the current user is non-root. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/remote/remote_driver.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/remote/remote_driver.c b/src/remote/remote_driver.c index 0a37a63e8d..e1eaa56230 100644 --- a/src/remote/remote_driver.c +++ b/src/remote/remote_driver.c @@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ doRemoteOpen(virConnectPtr conn, case trans_libssh2: if (!sockname) { /* Right now we don't support default session connections */ - if (STREQ_NULLABLE(conn->uri->path, "/session")) { + if (flags & VIR_DRV_OPEN_REMOTE_USER) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", _("Connecting to session instance without " "socket path is not supported by the libssh2 " @@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ doRemoteOpen(virConnectPtr conn, case trans_libssh: if (!sockname) { /* Right now we don't support default session connections */ - if (STREQ_NULLABLE(conn->uri->path, "/session")) { + if (flags & VIR_DRV_OPEN_REMOTE_USER) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", _("Connecting to session instance without " "socket path is not supported by the libssh " @@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ doRemoteOpen(virConnectPtr conn, if (!sockname) { /* Right now we don't support default session connections */ - if (STREQ_NULLABLE(conn->uri->path, "/session")) { + if (flags & VIR_DRV_OPEN_REMOTE_USER) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", _("Connecting to session instance without " "socket path is not supported by the ssh " -- 2.21.0