[libvirt] [PATCH] virt-login-shell joins users into lxc container.

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Jul 25 17:09:46 UTC 2013


On 07/25/2013 11:06 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 07:46:33AM -0400, dwalsh at redhat.com wrote:
>> From: Dan Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>
>>
>> Openshift wants to have their gears stuck into a container when they login
>> to the system.  virt-login-shell will join a running gear with the username of
>> the person running it, or attempt to start the container if it is not running.
>> (Currently containers do not exist if they are not running, so I can not test
>> this feature. But the code is there).
>>
>> This tool needs to be setuid since joining a container (nsjoin) requires privs.
>> The root user is not allowed to execute this command. When this tool is
>> run by a normal user it will only join the "users" container.
>>
>> Only users who are listed as valid_users in /etc/libvirt/virt-login-shell.conf
>> are allowed to join containers using this tool. By default no users are allowed.
>> ---

> 
> ACK to this patch.
> 
> Technically since we're post freeze we shouldn't commit this until
> 1.1.2, but since this is an entirely new program perhaps we could
> make an exception here ? Thoughts ?

It was posted pre-freeze; the only reason it didn't make freeze was lack
of timely review.

> 
> It doesn't hugely matter either way, it'd just make life a little
> easier to have it in 1.1.1

I see little risk in including it in 1.1.1, since it really is a new
feature without touching existing code.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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