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* RE: Individual passwords for guest VNC servers ?
@ 2006-09-26 18:23 Ian Pratt
  2006-09-28  1:01 ` Masami Watanabe
  2006-09-29  8:47 ` [PATCH][Take 2] VNC authentification Masami Watanabe
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Ian Pratt @ 2006-09-26 18:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Masami Watanabe, Daniel P. Berrange, Anthony Liguori; +Cc: xen-devel

 
> Thanks all point about security, I'll do as follows.
> I thought that the point was the following two. 
> 
> 
> 1. Storage place of encrypted password
>   Should I store it in /etc/xen/passwd ?
>     Or, should I wait for DB of Xen that will be released in 
> the future?

The xend life cycle management patches were posted by Alistair a couple
of months back. They'll go in early in the 3.0.4 cycle.

>   In the latter case, the release time and information, I want you to
>   teach it.
>   Now, I think we have no choice but to use /etc/xen/passwd.

In the mean time, I'd just out them in the domain config file and change
the default permissions and ownership.

> 2. Method of Xen VNC Server receiving stored password
>   By way of xenstore. However, it is necessary to consider 
> xenstore-ls.

It can be passed transiently (i.e. it gets deleted from the store by
qemu-dm)
You need to be root to run xenstore-ls so I'm comfortable with this.

Ian

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2006-09-26 18:23 Individual passwords for guest VNC servers ? Ian Pratt
2006-09-28  1:01 ` Masami Watanabe
2006-09-29  8:47 ` [PATCH][Take 2] VNC authentification Masami Watanabe
2006-09-29 14:01   ` Anthony Liguori
2006-09-30 18:47     ` masami.watanabe
2006-09-29 22:11   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-09-30 18:53     ` Masami Watanabe
2006-10-02 16:22       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-02 17:24         ` Anthony Liguori
2006-10-02 18:12           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-02 19:15             ` Ian Pratt
2006-10-03  2:04               ` Masami Watanabe
2006-10-03 16:08               ` [PATCH][Take 3] " Masami Watanabe
2006-10-03 17:56                 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-10-03 18:06                   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-03 18:49                     ` Anthony Liguori

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