Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Peter Krempa 832f160247 util: Make failure to get supplementary group list for a uid non-fatal
Since introduction of the DAC security driver we've documented that
seclabels with a leading + can be used with numerical uid. This would
not work though with the rest of libvirt if the uid was not actually
used in the system as we'd fail when trying to get a list of
supplementary groups for the given uid. Since a uid without entry in
/etc/passwd (or other user database) will not have any supplementary
groups we can treat the failure to obtain them as such.

This patch modifies virGetGroupList to not report the error for missing
users and makes it return an empty list or just the group specified in
@gid.

All callers will grant less permissions to a user in case of failure of
this function and thus this change is safe.
2016-06-20 17:35:55 +02:00
.gnulib@246b3b2880 maint: update to latest gnulib 2016-05-27 14:06:45 -06:00
build-aux check-spacing: fix error message 2016-06-15 16:05:08 +02:00
daemon remote: implement storage lifecycle event APIs 2016-06-16 12:22:11 -04:00
docs docs: Add at least some docs and fix schema entry for perf events 2016-06-17 09:35:14 +02:00
examples event-test: support storage lifecycle event APIs 2016-06-16 12:22:11 -04:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2016-01-04 13:56:35 -07:00
include/libvirt Introduce storage lifecycle event APIs 2016-06-16 12:22:11 -04:00
m4 virt-login-shell: mark as Linux only 2016-06-13 12:51:17 +03:00
po libxl: introduce libxl_capabilities.{ch} 2016-06-13 14:13:16 -06:00
src util: Make failure to get supplementary group list for a uid non-fatal 2016-06-20 17:35:55 +02:00
tests Allow disjunct ranges in VIR_TEST_RANGE 2016-06-20 12:09:52 +02:00
tools tools: virt-login-shell: Fix cut'n'paste mistake in error message 2016-06-20 16:51:10 +02:00
.ctags maint: Make ctags work out of the box 2013-07-18 08:47:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
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autogen.sh maint: improve usage of autogen's --no-git 2015-02-06 11:35:29 -07:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2016-05-26 10:47:03 -06:00
bootstrap.conf build: use gnulib's unsetenv 2016-05-28 23:13:26 +02:00
cfg.mk syntax-check: drop prohibit_undesirable_word_seq 2016-06-16 07:57:53 +02:00
ChangeLog-old Fix typos in src/* 2014-04-21 16:49:08 -06:00
config-post.h libvirt-lxc: add virDomainLxcEnterCGroup API 2016-06-10 11:02:53 +01:00
configure.ac configure: remove definition of HAVE_GLIBC_RPCGEN 2016-06-17 15:35:46 +02:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: Remove control characters from LGPL license file 2015-09-25 09:16:24 +02:00
HACKING virtestmock: Print invalid file accesses into a file 2016-05-14 09:46:23 +02:00
libvirt-admin.pc.in Add libvirt-admin library 2015-06-16 13:46:20 +02:00
libvirt-lxc.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt-qemu.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt.spec.in spec: Make driver-qemu require driver-storage 2016-06-17 11:15:43 +02:00
Makefile.am maint: Switch to xz compressed PAX release archives 2016-06-15 18:53:34 +02:00
Makefile.nonreentrant cfg.mk: use a single regex for all non-reentrant functions 2016-06-15 15:00:56 +02:00
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README-hacking docs: update README-hacking 2014-05-06 16:20:24 -06:00
run.in Add PKG_CONFIG_PATH to run.in script. 2014-06-26 14:32:35 +01:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>