Bug 1059615 - [RFE] Upload iso/image from a client just via engine acting as proxy
Summary: [RFE] Upload iso/image from a client just via engine acting as proxy
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1091377
Alias: None
Product: oVirt
Classification: Retired
Component: ovirt-engine-core
Version: 3.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
: 3.6.0
Assignee: Greg Padgett
QA Contact: bugs@ovirt.org
URL:
Whiteboard: storage
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-01-30 09:24 UTC by Jiri Belka
Modified: 2016-02-10 19:45 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-07-24 13:37:32 UTC
oVirt Team: Storage
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Description Jiri Belka 2014-01-30 09:24:01 UTC
Description of problem:
A client should be able to upload iso/image while having connection only to engine IP. Right now there's need to either mount storage from client (NFS) or use ssh. Both cases need that FW allows client to access storage or storage server (ssh).

This is security and design problem.

I could image following scenario:
- client uses a CLI tool to upload an iso
- CLI tools connects to engine IP (webdav)?
- there's a app which catches uploaded iso and "forwards" the iso to storage. Engine already has ssh access to host so he could just copy iso via ssh (although it could be slow, for this kind it would be better to tune MAC/Ciphers [one could google misc list and there are some tips to make scp faster])

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Actual results:
client to upload iso/image needs access to host or storage

Expected results:
just use engine as "proxy"

Additional info:
in VMWare world, a user can upload file just fine from his client to vSphere just via mgmt GUI/Web UI

Comment 1 Jiri Belka 2014-01-30 09:26:49 UTC
Also in the future maybe there could be a need to change current permissions system so a user can upload iso/images which would be visible just for him. Thus to access whole storage or having access to host directly is big risk.

Comment 2 Sean Cohen 2014-07-24 13:37:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1091377 ***


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