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Bug 980852 - Can not save vnc and spice password when ssh to remote machine and launch virt-manager
Summary: Can not save vnc and spice password when ssh to remote machine and launch vir...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: virt-manager
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: virt-mgr-maint
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-03 11:06 UTC by tingting zheng
Modified: 2014-01-20 10:29 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-01-20 10:29:58 UTC
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screenshot of saving password on rhel6 (81.57 KB, image/png)
2013-07-03 11:09 UTC, tingting zheng 		no flags Details
screenshot of saving password on rhel7 (73.97 KB, image/png)
2013-07-03 11:09 UTC, tingting zheng 		no flags Details
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Description tingting zheng 2013-07-03 11:06:49 UTC 
Description
Can not save vnc and spice password when ssh to remote machine and launch virt-manager

Version:
virt-manager-0.9.0-18.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6_4.9.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.On machine A,prepare a guest,set password for vnc or spice.
2.Boot the guest.
3.On machine B,ssh to machine A,launch virt-manager.
4.Open the guest which has been set vnc or spice password,the "Save this password in your keyring" is disabled.

Actual results：
On rhel6, the "Save this password in your keyring" is disabled.
On rhel7, the "Save this password in your keyring" is enabled.

Expected results:
Can save vnc and spice password when ssh to remote machine and launch virt-manager

Additional info:
Attched the screenshot for both rhel6 and rhel7
Comment 1 tingting zheng 2013-07-03 11:09:02 UTC 
Created attachment 768196 [details]
screenshot of saving password on rhel6
Comment 2 tingting zheng 2013-07-03 11:09:36 UTC 
Created attachment 768197 [details]
screenshot of saving password on rhel7
Comment 4 Martin Kletzander 2013-07-16 05:01:30 UTC 
Do you have a keyring available?  Try explicitly running one and make sure dbus is running as well.  rhel6/7 is installed on the machine you are ssh'ing "to" or "from"?
Comment 5 tingting zheng 2013-07-16 06:13:25 UTC 
(In reply to Martin Kletzander from comment #4)
> Do you have a keyring available?  Try explicitly running one and make sure
> dbus is running as well.  rhel6/7 is installed on the machine you are
> ssh'ing "to" or "from"?

Not sure whether I've understand your meaning.Checked these systems,dbus is running.I didn't find keyring showed as a process in command ps.

Totally 3 machines,A and B with rhel 6 system,C with rhel 7 system.

1.Prepare a guest,set password for vnc or spice.On machine A,B,C,after boot the guest,the passowrd can be inputed and "Save this password in your keyring" is enabled.

2.On machine A,ssh machine B,launch virt-manager,boot the guest,the passowrd can be inputed and "Save this password in your keyring" is disabled.

3.On machine A,ssh machine C,launch virt-manager,boot the guest,the passowrd can be inputed and "Save this password in your keyring" is enabled.
Comment 6 Martin Kletzander 2013-07-16 07:33:39 UTC 
OK, I figured that out.  The difference is that with moving to Gtk3, we are using different backend for keyrings.  On rhel7 this works because we use dbus for saving/collecting secrets but on rhel6 we're stuck with local gnome-keyring.  That said, I must stress out that locally the saving should work on rhel6, this problem will be visible only while running virt-manager in ssh session.
Comment 7 luxin 2013-07-30 06:57:41 UTC 
I can reproduce this bug

In rhel6:
   Version:
   virt-manager-0.9.0-18.el6.x86_64
   libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6_4.9.x86_64

   Steps to Reproduce:
   1.On machine A,prepare a guest,set password for vnc or spice.
   2.Boot the guest.
   3.On machine B,ssh to machine A,launch virt-manager.
   4.Open the guest which has been set vnc or spice password,the "Save this     password in your keyring" is disabled.

   Actual results：
   On rhel6, the "Save this password in your keyring" is disabled.

   Expected results:
   Can save vnc and spice password when ssh to remote machine and launch    virt-manager,and the "Save this password in your keyring" is enabled.

In rhel7:
   Version:
   virt-manager-0.10.0-1.el7.noarch
   libvirt-1.0.6-1.el7.x86_64

   Steps to Reproduce:
   1.On machine A,prepare a guest,set password for vnc or spice.
   2.Boot the guest.
   3.On machine B,ssh to machine A,launch virt-manager.
   4.Open the guest which has been set vnc or spice password,the "Save this password in your keyring" is disabled.

   Actual results：
   On rhel7, the "Save this password in your keyring" is enabled.

   Expected results:
   Can save vnc and spice password when ssh to remote machine and launch virt-manager,and the "Save this password in your keyring" is enabled.
Comment 8 Giuseppe Scrivano 2014-01-20 10:29:58 UTC 
since it looks like a RFE and it is not affecting any user, I am going to close it.  Please reopen if you disagree.
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