[Libvir] Any sample code to use virConnectOpenAuth() in C binding ?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jan 23 14:40:10 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 06:07:23PM +0530, Arun Sharma wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Can anyone provide me sample code for connecting hypervisor using
> credentials.
> 
> As of now i have implemented using(virConnectOpen(NULL)) , but this function
> does not takes any credential information.
> 
> I saw that there is function (virConnectOpenAuth()) which can be used , but
> i don;t know any way to implement

Take a look at the 'src/virsh.c' code - this uses the open auth method 
providing a callback suitable for any password+username auth scheme. I'll
be adding policykit support to virsh soon to, so long term virsh will serve
as very good example code for authentication from C.

Regards,
Dan.
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