It's not possible to use password-protected ssh keys directly with
libvirt because libvirt doesn't have any way to prompt a user for the
password. To accomodate password-protected key files, an administrator
can add these keys to an ssh agent and then configure the domain with
the path to the ssh-agent socket.
Note that this requires an administrator or management app to
configure the ssh-agent with an appropriate socket path and add the
necessary keys to it. In addition, it does not currently work with
selinux enabled. The ssh-agent socket would need a label that libvirt
would be allowed to access rather than unconfined_t.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
For ssh disks that are served by nbdkit, we can support logging in with
an ssh key file. Pass the path to the configured key file and the
username to the nbdkit process.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
