[virt-tools-list] [virt-viewer] man: Mention that ssh-agent can be useful

Pavel Grunt pgrunt at redhat.com
Fri Dec 2 19:50:04 UTC 2016


Hi,

On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 17:32 +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> When using a tunneled SPICE connection, the user will get a dozen
> authentication prompts if they are not using ssh-agent.

Please add a reference to the bug
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377283

Pavel
> ---
>  man/virt-viewer.pod | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man/virt-viewer.pod b/man/virt-viewer.pod
> index bd953ed..ad3e298 100644
> --- a/man/virt-viewer.pod
> +++ b/man/virt-viewer.pod
> @@ -179,6 +179,15 @@ To connect to a remote console using TLS
>     virt-viewer --connect xen://example.org/ demo
>  
>  To connect to a remote host using SSH, lookup the guest config and
> +then make a tunnelled connection of the console
> +
> +   virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh://root@example.org/ demo
> +
> +When using a SSH tunnel to connect to a SPICE console, it's
> recommended to
> +have ssh-agent running to avoid getting multiple authentication
> prompts.
> +
> +
> +To connect to a remote host using SSH, lookup the guest config and
>  then make a direct non-tunnelled connection of the console
>  
>     virt-viewer --direct --connect xen+ssh://root@example.org/ demo




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