F20 Self Contained Change: Role based access control with libvirt

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 17:03:46 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:58:36PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:37:26PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > >        and those audiences only. In particular, applications, mechanisms
> > >        and general-purpose operating systems must never include any
> > >        authorization rules.
> > What/where's the problem you're seeing ?
> 
> Not necessarily a problem -- just a clarification, which I guess I should
> have been more clear on myself. :) This is just changing libvirt so that
> these auth policy files will work, not shipping any, right?

Yes, libvirt is just calling pkcheck with suitable arguments. The admin
is the one writing the policy files, which is what we need to document
the process for.

Daniel
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