[Libvirt] VNC auth per VM

[Christian Weyermann]

Daniel P. Berrange schrieb:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:10:47AM +0200, Christian Weyermann wrote:
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>> Daniel P. Berrange schrieb:
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>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:05:39AM -0400, Jim Paris wrote:
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>>>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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>>>>> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:35:00AM +0200, Christian Weyermann wrote:
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>>>>>> Hello everybody,
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>>>>>> I encountered the following problem. I want my users to only be able to
>>>>>> connect to their own virtual machines via VNC. Is there any way to do so?
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>>>>> The VNC authentication setup is currently being done per-host, so there
>>>>> is no way to define ACLs per-(user,vm) tuple as you describe.
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>>>> What about the VNC password?
>>>> That's per-VM, isn't it?
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>>> That is true by I don't really consider VNC password to be useful. It is
>>> utterly insecure. If you want to have plain passwords, then its better to
>>> use the new SASL authentication method, with its Digest-MD5 plugin. That
>>> is still not top-grade security, but it is better then VNC password and
>>> allows configuration of arbitrary Username+pasword pairs.. At which point
>>> we just need ACLs against the usernames. SASL also provide Kerberos auth,
>>> where we can do an ACL against the Kerberos principle name. And VeNCrypt
>>> provides TLS+x509 certificates which you can either layer SASL over again,
>>> or require client x509 certs and do an ACL against the client CNAME
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>> Ok, so let me sumarize: It is possible to define username+password pairs
>> via SASL. SASL can also sync with Kerberos. So the only problem left is,
>> that there is no way to assign a specific username to a VM. So, what we
>> need is a plugin, where we have an username and a virtual machine as
>> input and we need to refuse the connection, if this pair is not valid.
>> The VNC Server is part of libvirt, so the perfect method to add this
>> functionallity would be the VNC Servers authenticate or start method.
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>> However, a Windows user is still not able to connect as there is no
>> windows vnc client capable of doing SASL.
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> GTK-VNC builds on Windows, and so does libvirt. So the intent was that
> we'd be able to have  virt-viewer working on Windows using those two.
> Oh, when I say Windows, i mean Mingw32
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Ok, so the other part of the post is correct? So what do you think about
the effort for implementing this feature?