Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:13:32AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > > to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything else except > > the sasldb, although I didn't try Kerberos). Does anybody know off > > the top of their head what mechanisms/password check options work? > > I'm trying to figure out if I'm attempting the impossible. > > If you are configuring SASL for the tcp socket it will refuse to use > SASL mechanisms which do not support encryption, which is all of them > except Kerberos or Digest-MD5. > > If you are configuring SASL for the TLS socket it will allow any > SASL mechanism, since TLS provides the encryption Ah, I left out the most salient detail: I was trying it on the unix rw socket. libvirtd.conf says "For non-TCP or TLS sockets, any scheme is allowed." The way I read that, I'd expect any scheme to work with the unix rw socket, is that right?