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

Marcelo Cerri mhcerri at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Oct 6 02:52:22 UTC 2012


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.

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 | 40 ++++++---------------
 src/util/util.c             | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

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1.7.12




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