Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ssh: add password and privkey auth methods

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 04:45:03PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Friday, 26 July 2019 16:27:11 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 04:09:52PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > > These two patches add the password and private key authentication
> > > methods to the ssh block driver, using secure objects for
> > > passwords/passphrases.
> > 
> > I was attempting to test this but couldn't work out the full command
> > line to use it (with qemu-img).  I got as far as:
> > 
> > $ ./qemu-img convert -p 'json:{ "file.driver": "ssh", "file.host": "devr7", "file.path": "/var/tmp/root", "file.password-secret": "..." }' /var/tmp/root
> > 
> > I guess the secret should be specified using --object, but at that
> > point I gave up.
> 
> Almost there :) add e.g.
>   --object 'secret,id=sec0,file=passwd'
> as parameter for the convert command (so after it, not before), and then
> set 'sec0' as value for file.password-secret.  Of course 'sec0' is
> arbitrary, any other QEMU id will do.
> 
> A long helpful comment in include/crypto/secret.h explains the basics
> of the crypto objects.

OK, the password part of this patch does work, so:

Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>

Rich.

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