[virt-tools-list] what should be correct permissions of xml files

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Feb 10 10:52:53 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:14:04PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> I restored KVM guest on a Ubuntu server from a backup.
> I see some permissions problem.
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1289 2011-02-10 12:51 machine1.xml
> is the above permission on a conf file
> in /etc/libvirt/qemu/machine1.xml
> correct?
> If not let me know what are the correct permissions.

 -rwx------

You don't want any users to read these files except root, since they can
contain passwords for VNC/SPICE

Daniel
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