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.
