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m4: Run QEMU under a distro-specific user when possible

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Our current defaults are root:wheel on FreeBSD and macOS, root:root
everywhere else.

Looking at what downstream distributions actually do, we can see that
these defaults are overriden the vast majority of the time, with a
number of variations showing up in the wild:

  * qemu:qemu -> Used by CentOS, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, RHEL
                 and... As it turns out, our very own spec file :)

  * libvirt-qemu:libvirt-qemu -> Used by Debian.

  * libvirt-qemu:kvm -> Used by Ubuntu.

  * nobody:nobody -> Used by Arch Linux.

Based on this information, we can do a better job at integrating with
downstream packages: if the distro-specific user and group already
exist on the system then we use them, and if not (or we're building
on an unknown OS) we just use root:root as we would have before.

This change makes it less likely that people building from source
will end up running their guests as root, which is a very desiderable
outcome from the security point of view.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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Andrea Bolognani 2019-03-26 11:01:32 +01:00
parent c34b3eefdf
commit 29cd1877ac
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@ -44,8 +44,42 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_DRIVER_CHECK_QEMU], [
default_qemu_user=root
default_qemu_group=wheel
else
default_qemu_user=root
default_qemu_group=root
# Try to integrate gracefully with downstream packages by running QEMU
# processes using the same user and group they would
case $(grep ^ID= /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null) in
*arch*)
default_qemu_user=nobody
default_qemu_group=nobody
;;
*centos*|*fedora*|*gentoo*|*rhel*|*suse*)
default_qemu_user=qemu
default_qemu_group=qemu
;;
*debian*)
default_qemu_user=libvirt-qemu
default_qemu_group=libvirt-qemu
;;
*ubuntu*)
default_qemu_user=libvirt-qemu
default_qemu_group=kvm
;;
*)
default_qemu_user=root
default_qemu_group=root
;;
esac
# If the expected user and group don't exist, or we haven't hit any
# of the cases above because we're running on an unknown OS, the only
# sensible fallback is root:root
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for QEMU credentials ($default_qemu_user:$default_qemu_group)])
if getent passwd "$default_qemu_user" >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
getent group "$default_qemu_group" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
AC_MSG_RESULT([ok])
else
AC_MSG_RESULT([not found, using root:root instead])
default_qemu_user=root
default_qemu_group=root
fi
fi
if test "x$with_qemu_user" = "xplatform dependent" ; then