[Libguestfs] [v2v PATCH] input-xen: sync PasswordAuthentication hint from input-vmware manual

Laszlo Ersek lersek at redhat.com
Sat Apr 9 06:55:12 UTC 2022


Unlike in the VMWare input module, we don't have "remote_file_exists"
"scp_from_remote_to_temporary" functions in the Xen input module;
therefore, nothing inherently prevents "-ip" from satisfying all ssh
password requests when using input-xen. However, the Xen server still
needs to permit PasswordAuthentication; sync the appropriate note from the
input-vmware manual to the input-xen manual.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1854275
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
---
 docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod b/docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod
index c4948e5e0c23..8080ebea7723 100644
--- a/docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod
+++ b/docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ RHEL 5 Xen, or SLES and OpenSUSE Xen hosts.
 
 You can use SSH password authentication, by supplying the name of a
 file containing the password to the I<-ip> option (note this option
-does I<not> take the password directly).
+does I<not> take the password directly).  You may need to adjust
+F</etc/ssh/sshd_config> on the Xen server to set
+C<PasswordAuthentication yes>.
 
 If you are not using password authentication, an alternative is to use
 ssh-agent, and add your ssh public key to
-- 
2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201



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