Hi, I am trying to connect to remote libvirt via script, and I get password prompt from the shell. ============================================================================ uri='xen+ssh://root@myserver/?no_verify=1' def req(credentials, user_data): print('in req...\n') for cred in credentials: if cred[0] == libvirt.VIR_CRED_AUTHNAME: cred[4] = username elif cred[0] == libvirt.VIR_CRED_PASSPHRASE: cred[4] = passwd return 0 auth = [[libvirt.VIR_CRED_AUTHNAME, libvirt.VIR_CRED_PASSPHRASE], req, None] con = libvirt.openAuth(uri, auth, 0) ============================================================================ The script never enter req() method but prompts for password, after I enter the password I am able to connect to the remote machine.

On 03.11.15 15:37, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:14:00AM +0200, Shahar Havivi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to connect to remote libvirt via script, > > and I get password prompt from the shell. > > > > > > ============================================================================ > > uri='xen+ssh://root@myserver/?no_verify=1' > > def req(credentials, user_data): > > print('in req...\n') > > for cred in credentials: > > if cred[0] == libvirt.VIR_CRED_AUTHNAME: > > cred[4] = username > > elif cred[0] == libvirt.VIR_CRED_PASSPHRASE: > > cred[4] = passwd > > return 0 > > > > auth = [[libvirt.VIR_CRED_AUTHNAME, libvirt.VIR_CRED_PASSPHRASE], req, None] > > con = libvirt.openAuth(uri, auth, 0) > > ============================================================================ > > > > The script never enter req() method but prompts for password, after I enter > > the password I am able to connect to the remote machine. > > The '+ssh' method actually spawns the /usr/bin/ssh binary to connect to > the remote host. As such libvirt has no API mechanism to handle credential > collection for the binary via openAuth(). So the only viable way to use the > +ssh method is with SSH keys and SSH agent, to avoid any interactive auth > prompts. > > There is an alternative method +libssh2 which uses the libssh2 library > instead of SSH binary. This allows libvirt to collect credentials via > the openAuth() method. > > http://libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_URI_reference Thank you Daniel, Decided to go with xen+ssh with public key authentication which works fine. I notice a problem in several methods that returns: "libvirt: Remote Driver error : unknown procedure: 273" for example listDefinedDomains works fine: In [104]: con.listDefinedDomains() Out[104]: ['fedora22'] but listAllDomains fails: ============================================================================ In [105]: con.listAllDomains() libvirt: Remote Driver error : unknown procedure: 273 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- libvirtError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-105-a702d3dbcff3> in <module>() ----> 1 con.listAllDomains() /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.pyc in listAllDomains(self, flags) 4925 ret = libvirtmod.virConnectListAllDomains(self._o, flags) 4926 if ret is None: -> 4927 raise libvirtError("virConnectListAllDomains() failed", conn=self) 4928 4929 retlist = list() ============================================================================ Any suggestion why?