Bug 1061639
Summary: | [Security] vdsm libvirt authentication is static and public | ||
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Product: | [Retired] oVirt | Reporter: | Sven Kieske <s.kieske> |
Component: | vdsm | Assignee: | Dan Kenigsberg <danken> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aharon Canan <acanan> |
Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 3.4 | CC: | abaron, acathrow, bazulay, dougsland, gklein, iheim, mgoldboi, pdwyer, yeylon |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2014-02-05 12:18:28 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Sven Kieske
2014-02-05 09:48:54 UTC
The "password" that Vdsm uses to communicate with libvirt over the host-local vdsm-owned unix domain socket is NOT a security measure. It is an obfuscation of the read/write libvirt interface, designed to deter local administrators from changing libvirt directly. Cf. bug 570526 about the sad history of this request. *** Bug 1309769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |