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<h1>Polkit access control</h1>
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<p>
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Libvirt's client <a href="acl.html">access control framework</a> allows
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administrators to setup fine grained permission rules across client users,
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managed objects and API operations. This allows client connections
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to be locked down to a minimal set of privileges. The polkit driver
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provides a simple implementation of the access control framework.
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<ul id="toc"></ul>
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<h2><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h2>
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<p>
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A default install of libvirt will typically use
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<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/">polkit</a>
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to authenticate the initial user connection to libvirtd. This is a
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very coarse grained check though, either allowing full read-write
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access to all APIs, or just read-only access. The polkit access
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control driver in libvirt builds on this capability to allow for
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fine grained control over the operations a user may perform on an
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object.
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<h2><a name="perms">Permission names</a></h2>
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<p>
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The libvirt <a href="acl.html#perms">object names and permission names</a>
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are mapped onto polkit action names using the simple pattern:
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<pre>org.libvirt.api.$object.$permission
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</pre>
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The only caveat is that any underscore characters in the
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object or permission names are converted to hyphens. So,
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for example, the <code>search_storage_vols</code> permission
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on the <code>storage_pool</code> object maps to the polkit
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action:
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<pre>org.libvirt.api.storage-pool.search-storage-vols
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</pre>
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<p>
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The default policy for any permission which corresponds to
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a "read only" operation, is to allow access. All other
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permissions default to deny access.
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</p>
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<h2><a name="attrs">Object identity attributes</a></h2>
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<p>
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To allow polkit authorization rules to be written to match
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against individual object instances, libvirt provides a number
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of authorization detail attributes when performing a permission
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check. The set of attributes varies according to the type
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of object being checked
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</p>
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<h3><a name="object_connect">virConnectPtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="object_domain">virDomainPtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>domain_name</td>
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<td>Name of the domain, unique to the local host</td>
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</tr>
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<td>domain_uuid</td>
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<td>UUID of the domain, globally unique</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="object_interface">virInterfacePtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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<td>interface_name</td>
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<td>Name of the network interface, unique to the local host</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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2014-11-07 09:35:33 +00:00
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<td>interface_macaddr</td>
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<td>MAC address of the network interface, not unique</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="object_network">virNetworkPtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>network_name</td>
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<td>Name of the network, unique to the local host</td>
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</tr>
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<td>network_uuid</td>
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<td>UUID of the network, globally unique</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="object_node_device">virNodeDevicePtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>node_device_name</td>
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<td>Name of the node device, unique to the local host</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="object_nwfilter">virNWFilterPtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>nwfilter_name</td>
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<td>Name of the network filter, unique to the local host</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>nwfilter_uuid</td>
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<td>UUID of the network filter, globally unique</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="object_secret">virSecretPtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>secret_uuid</td>
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<td>UUID of the secret, globally unique</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>secret_usage_volume</td>
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<td>Name of the associated volume, if any</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>secret_usage_ceph</td>
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<td>Name of the associated Ceph server, if any</td>
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</tr>
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<td>secret_usage_target</td>
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<td>Name of the associated iSCSI target, if any</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="object_storage_pool">virStoragePoolPtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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<td>pool_name</td>
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<td>Name of the storage pool, unique to the local host</td>
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</tr>
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<td>pool_uuid</td>
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<td>UUID of the storage pool, globally unique</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="object_storage_vol">virStorageVolPtr</a></h3>
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<table class="acl">
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<thead>
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<th>Attribute</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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<td>connect_driver</td>
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<td>Name of the libvirt connection driver</td>
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</tr>
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<td>pool_name</td>
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<td>Name of the storage pool, unique to the local host</td>
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<td>pool_uuid</td>
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<td>UUID of the storage pool, globally unique</td>
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</tr>
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<td>vol_name</td>
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<td>Name of the storage volume, unique to the pool</td>
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<td>vol_key</td>
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<td>Key of the storage volume, globally unique</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<h2><a name="user">User identity attributes</a></h2>
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<p>
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At this point in time, the only attribute provided by
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libvirt to identify the user invoking the operation
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is the PID of the client program. This means that the
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polkit access control driver is only useful if connections
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to libvirt are restricted to its UNIX domain socket. If
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connections are being made to a TCP socket, no identifying
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information is available and access will be denied.
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Also note that if the client is connecting via an SSH
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tunnel, it is the local SSH user that will be identified.
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In future versions, it is expected that more information
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about the client user will be provided, including the
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SASL / Kerberos username and/or x509 distinguished
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name obtained from the authentication provider in use.
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<h2><a name="checks">Writing access control policies</a></h2>
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<p>
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If using versions of polkit prior to 0.106 then it is only
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possible to validate (user, permission) pairs via the <code>.pkla</code>
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files. Fully validation of the (user, permission, object) triple
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requires the new JavaScript <code>.rules</code> support that
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was introduced in version 0.106. The latter is what will be
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described here.
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</p>
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<p>
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Libvirt does not ship any rules files by default. It merely
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provides a definition of the default behaviour for each
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action (permission). As noted earlier, permissions which
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correspond to read-only operations in libvirt will be allowed
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to all users by default; everything else is denied by default.
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Defining custom rules requires creation of a file in the
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<code>/etc/polkit-1/rules.d</code> directory with a name
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chosen by the administrator (<code>100-libvirt-acl.rules</code>
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would be a reasonable choice). See the <code>polkit(8)</code>
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manual page for a description of how to write these files
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in general. The key idea is to create a file containing
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something like
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</p>
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In this code snippet above, the <code>action</code> object
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instance will represent the libvirt permission being checked
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along with identifying attributes for the object it is being
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applied to. The <code>subject</code> meanwhile will identify
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the libvirt client app (with the caveat above about it only
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dealing with local clients connected via the UNIX socket).
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On the <code>action</code> object, the permission name is
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accessible via the <code>id</code> attribute, while the
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object identifying attributes are exposed via the
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<code>lookup</code> method.
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</p>
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<p>
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See
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<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=tree;f=examples/polkit;hb=HEAD">source code</a>
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for a more complex example.
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</p>
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<h3><a name="exconnect">Example: restricting ability to connect to drivers</a></h3>
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<p>
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Consider a local user <code>berrange</code>
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who has been granted permission to connect to libvirt in
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full read-write mode. The goal is to only allow them to
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use the <code>QEMU</code> driver and not the Xen or LXC
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drivers which are also available in libvirtd.
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To achieve this we need to write a rule which checks
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whether the <code>connect_driver</code> attribute
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is <code>QEMU</code>, and match on an action
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name of <code>org.libvirt.api.connect.getattr</code>. Using
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the javascript rules format, this ends up written as
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</p>
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<pre>
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polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
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if (action.id == "org.libvirt.api.connect.getattr" &&
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subject.user == "berrange") {
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if (action.lookup("connect_driver") == 'QEMU') {
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return polkit.Result.YES;
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} else {
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return polkit.Result.NO;
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}
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}
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});
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</pre>
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<h3><a name="exdomain">Example: restricting access to a single domain</a></h3>
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<p>
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Consider a local user <code>berrange</code>
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who has been granted permission to connect to libvirt in
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full read-write mode. The goal is to only allow them to
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see the domain called <code>demo</code> on the LXC driver.
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To achieve this we need to write a rule which checks
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whether the <code>connect_driver</code> attribute
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is <code>LXC</code> and the <code>domain_name</code>
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attribute is <code>demo</code>, and match on a action
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name of <code>org.libvirt.api.domain.getattr</code>. Using
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the javascript rules format, this ends up written as
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</p>
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<pre>
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polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
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if (action.id == "org.libvirt.api.domain.getattr" &&
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subject.user == "berrange") {
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if (action.lookup("connect_driver") == 'LXC' &&
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action.lookup("domain_name") == 'demo') {
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return polkit.Result.YES;
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} else {
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return polkit.Result.NO;
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}
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}
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});
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