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<h1>Client access control</h1>
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<p>
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Libvirt's client access control framework allows administrators
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to setup fine grained permission rules across client users,
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managed objects and API operations. This allows client connections
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to be locked down to a minimal set of privileges.
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</p>
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<ul id="toc"></ul>
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<h2><a id="intro">Access control introduction</a></h2>
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<p>
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In a default configuration, the libvirtd daemon has three levels
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of access control. All connections start off in an unauthenticated
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state, where the only API operations allowed are those required
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to complete authentication. After successful authentication, a
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connection either has full, unrestricted access to all libvirt
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API calls, or is locked down to only "read only" operations,
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according to what socket a client connection originated on.
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</p>
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<p>
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The access control framework allows authenticated connections to
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have fine grained permission rules to be defined by the administrator.
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Every API call in libvirt has a set of permissions that will
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be validated against the object being used. For example, the
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<code>virDomainSetSchedulerParametersFlags</code> method will
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check whether the client user has the <code>write</code>
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permission on the <code>domain</code> object instance passed
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in as a parameter. Further permissions will also be checked
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if certain flags are set in the API call. In addition to
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checks on the object passed in to an API call, some methods
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will filter their results. For example the <code>virConnectListAllDomains</code>
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method will check the <code>search_domains</code> on the <code>connect</code>
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object, but will also filter the returned <code>domain</code>
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objects to only those on which the client user has the
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<code>getattr</code> permission.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="drivers">Access control drivers</a></h2>
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<p>
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The access control framework is designed as a pluggable
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system to enable future integration with arbitrary access
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control technologies. By default, the <code>none</code>
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driver is used, which does no access control checks at
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all. At this time, libvirt ships with support for using
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<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/">polkit</a> as a real access
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control driver. To learn how to use the polkit access
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driver consult <a href="aclpolkit.html">the configuration
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docs</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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The access driver is configured in the <code>libvirtd.conf</code>
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configuration file, using the <code>access_drivers</code>
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parameter. This parameter accepts an array of access control
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driver names. If more than one access driver is requested,
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then all must succeed in order for access to be granted.
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To enable 'polkit' as the driver:
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</p>
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<pre>
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# augtool -s set '/files/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf/access_drivers[1]' polkit
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</pre>
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<p>
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And to reset back to the default (no-op) driver
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</p>
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<pre>
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# augtool -s rm /files/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf/access_drivers
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</pre>
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<p>
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<strong>Note:</strong> changes to libvirtd.conf require that
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the libvirtd daemon be restarted.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="perms">Objects and permissions</a></h2>
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<p>
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Libvirt applies access control to all the main object
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types in its API. Each object type, in turn, has a set
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of permissions defined. To determine what permissions
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are checked for specific API call, consult the
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<a href="html/index.html">API reference manual</a>
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documentation for the API in question.
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</p>
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