[libvirt] [PATCH] virt-admin: Properly fix the default session daemon URI to admin server

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Tue Aug 9 14:04:12 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 15:43:57 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> Commit 30ce2f0e tried to fix the issue with an incorrect session URI to admin
> server but it messed up the checks:
> 
>     if (geteuid == 0 && VIR_STRDUP(*uristr, "libvirtd:///system") < 0)
>         return -1;
>     else if (VIR_STRDUP(*uristr, "libvirtd:///session") < 0)
>         return -1;
> 
> So if a client executed with root privileges tries to connect, its euid is
> checked (true) and the correct URI is successfully copied to @uristr (false),
> therefore the 'else' branch is taken and @uristr is replaced by the session URI
> which for root results in:
>     Failed to connect socket to '/root/.cache/libvirt/libvirt-admin-sock':
>     No such file or directory
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/libvirt-admin.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

ACK

Jirka




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