[libvirt] [PATCH v2 0/2] extend virGetUserID and virGetGroupID

[Marcelo Cerri]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:23:41PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 02:37 PM, Marcelo Cerri wrote:
> > This patch series moves the logic for parsing users and groups in a
> > similar way to coreutils' chown from security_dac.c to util.c, as
> > suggested by Eric Blake.
> > 
> > This change has two majors side effects:
> > 
> >  1. Some error messages that were issued when security_dac.c tried to
> >     parse an ID as a name are no longer issued.
> >  2. The keys `user` and `group` in qemu.conf can now be defined in the
> >     same way that in DAC security labels.
> > 
> > Peter Krempa's fix for correctly handling errors returned by getpwnam_r and
> > getgrnam_r is squashed into this patch series.
> > 
> > Marcelo Cerri (2):
> >   util: extend virGetUserID and virGetGroupID to support names and IDs
> >   security: update user and group parsing in security_dac.c
> > 
> >  src/security/security_dac.c |  45 +++-----------
> >  src/util/util.c             | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> >  2 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK series, and pushed.  However, I wonder if we should prepare a
> followup patch to src/qemu/qemu.conf, documenting the new semantics of
> the 'user' and 'group' config items for accepting numeric ids via
> leading '+' in the string.

I agree. I've just sent a patch as you suggested:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-October/msg00342.html

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