[libvirt] Web Interface -> LibVirt Communication?

[Michael March]

> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:57:11AM -0700, Michael March wrote:
>   
>> This might not be the 'right way' but here is how I handled 
>> communication to each Xen instance my web interface is managing. I used 
>> the ssh style connect string.. even if it was a local instance.. here is 
>> a line ripped right from my code:
>>
>> server_list={"michael":['127.0.0.1',""], "tito":['192.168.101.5',""], 
>> "jermaine":['192.168.101.6',""}
>>
>> .. then later in my code...
>>
>> for server in server_list:
>>    server_list[server][1] = 
>> libvirt.open('xen+ssh://root@'+server_list[server][0]+'/')
>>     
>
> I wouldn't recommend using the SSH transport for serious management
> tools. If you want a simple username/password based auth scheme which 
> is trivial to setup, then the Digest-MD5 scheme is best bet. The
> SSH tunnel capability is handy for ad-hoc sysadmin work, but it suffers
> from having a high initial connection overhead and poor diagnostics 
> when things go wrong. 
>
> Digest-MD5 is easy to setup, only requiring you to create a user on each
> managed node which your app will authenticate as:
>
>   http://libvirt.org/auth.html#ACL_server_username
>   

When I looked at this it *seemed* you had to embed the username and 
password someplace in your code or a config file... did I get the wrong 
impression?