[libvirt] [PATCH 13/13] qemu: pass iscsi authorization credentials

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:44:32PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> A better way to do this would be to use a configuration file like
> 
>    [iscsi "target-name"]
>    user = name
>    password = pwd
> 
> and pass it via -readconfig.  This would remove the username and password
> from the "ps" output.  For now, however, keep this solution.

Urgh, we only accepted this for RBD on the condition that they were
working on adding a monitor command to set secrets securely. Did
that never happen ?

/me wishes we'd never added code to allow it to be passed the CLI.

> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 80 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  ...qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-iscsi-auth.args |  1 +
>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |  2 +
>  3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-iscsi-auth.args


Very reluctant ACK on the basis that its is no worse than the mess
we already have for rbd :-(

Daniel
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