Slightly improve the list of known authentication service types:
- reword 'ssh' to mention it is used for the ssh driver (for remote
QEMU), and stop mentioning the removed Phyp driver
- add 'hyperv', used by the HyperV driver
- alphabetically sort the list
- use a bulletted list instead of a numbered one
Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The phyp driver was added in 2009 and does not appear to have had any
real feature change since 2011. There's virtually no evidence online
of users actually using it. IMO it's time to kill it.
This was discussed a bit in April 2016:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg01060.html
Final discussion is here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-December/msg01162.html
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
The xenapi driver has not seen any development since its initial
contribution 9 years ago. There have been no bug reports, no patches,
and no queries about the driver on the developer or user mailing lists.
Remove the driver from the libvirt sources.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
PolicyKit authentication rules have switched to a JavaScript based
format quite some time ago. See:
http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2012/06/authorization-rules-in-polkit.html
While backwards compat for the old .pkla format is still available, it
makes sense to point people first at the new format.
The SSHPolicyKitSetup wiki page seems pretty stale, so remove the
reference to it.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
The HTML5 doctype is simply
<!DOCTYPE html>
no DTD is present because HTML5 is no longer defined as an
extension of SGML.
XSL has no way to natively output a doctype without a public
or system identifier, so we have to use an <xsl:text> hack
instead.
See also
https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/#doctype-declaration
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The 'name' attribute on <a...> elements is deprecated in favour
of the 'id' attribute which is allowed on any element. HTML5
drops 'name' support entirely.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
RFC 6331 documents a number of serious security weaknesses in
the SASL DIGEST-MD5 mechanism. As such, libvirtd should not
by using it as a default mechanism. GSSAPI is the only other
viable SASL mechanism that can provide secure session encryption
so enable that by defalt as the replacement.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This adds two new pages to the website, acl.html describing
the general access control framework and permissions models,
and aclpolkit.html describing the use of polkit as an
access control driver.
page.xsl is modified to support a new syntax
<div id="include" filename="somefile.htmlinc"/>
which will cause the XSL transform to replace that <div>
with the contents of 'somefile.htmlinc'. We use this in
the acl.html.in file, to pull the table of permissions
for each libvirt object. This table is autogenerated
from the enums in src/access/viraccessperms.h by the
genaclperms.pl script.
newapi.xsl is modified so that the list of permissions
checks shown against each API will link to the description
of the permissions in acl.html
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The rule generating the HTML docs passing the --html flag
to xsltproc. This makes it use the legacy HTML parser, which
either ignores or tries to fix all sorts of broken XML tags.
There's no reason why we should be writing broken XML in
the first place, so removing --html and adding the XHTML
doctype to all files forces us to create good XML.
This adds the XHTML doc type and fixes many, many XML tag
problems it exposes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Kerberos uses 'primary' or 'key' files (principals), not 'abstract
ideal' or 'rule' files (principles). Reported by Jason Meinzer.
Reflow a paragraph to fit in 80 columns in the process.
* docs/auth.html.in: Fix spelling.
On F17 at least, every time libvirtd starts we get this in syslog:
libvirtd: Could not find keytab file: /etc/libvirt/krb5.tab: No such file or directory
This comes from cyrus-sasl, and happens regardless of whether the
gssapi plugin is requested, which is what actually uses
/etc/libvirt/krb5.tab.
While cyrus-sasl shouldn't complain, we can easily make it shut up by
commenting out the keytab value by default.
Also update the keytab comment to the more modern one from qemu's
sasl config file.
As defined in:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
This offers a number of advantages:
* Allows sharing a home directory between different machines, or
sessions (eg. using NFS)
* Cleanly separates cache, runtime (eg. sockets), or app data from
user settings
* Supports performing smart or selective migration of settings
between different OS versions
* Supports reseting settings without breaking things
* Makes it possible to clear cache data to make room when the disk
is filling up
* Allows us to write a robust and efficient backup solution
* Allows an admin flexibility to change where data and settings are stored
* Dramatically reduces the complexity and incoherence of the
system for administrators
Tweaked the PolicyKit documentation improvement patch submitted
by Patrick Dignan.
Additionally, removed the reference to PolicyKit.conf, which is
no longer used by PolicyKit, plus added a link to the expanded
PolicyKit example page on the wiki.
