[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] client: Change default location of known_hosts file for libssh2 layer

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 09:59:19 UTC 2012


On 08/21/12 19:23, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/21/2012 10:48 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> Unfortunately libssh2 doesn't support all types of host keys that can be
>> saved in the known_hosts file. Also it does not report that parsing of
>> the file failed. This results into truncated known_hosts files where the
>> standard client stores keys also in other formats (eg.
>> ecdsa-sha2-nistp256).
>>
>> This patch changes the default location of the known_hosts file into the
>> libvirt private configuration directory, where it will be only written
>> by the libssh2 layer itself. This prevents thrashing user's files.
>
> s/thrashing/trashing/
>
>> ---
>>   src/rpc/virnetclient.c |   17 ++++++++++-------
>>   1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> ACK.

Series pushed. Thanks!

Peter




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