[libvirt-users] Libvirt access control drivers

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 11:13:01AM +0300, Anastasiya Ruzhanskaya wrote:
> I read this page https://libvirt.org/aclpolkit.html
> And it is written :"At this point in time, the only attribute provided by
> libvirt to identify the user invoking the operation is the PID of the
> client program. This means that the polkit access control driver is only
> useful if connections to libvirt are restricted to its UNIX domain socket."

You're mis-interpreted what that means. Libvirt provides the PID to polkit
(well actually pid + starttime), polkit uses this to identify the process
and determine its username and group membership, which is then used to
make access control decisions.

Regards,
Daniel
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