From: Iordan Iordanov <iordan@cdf.toronto.edu>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: restricting users to only power control of VMs
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:10:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEFBB15.9080307@cdf.toronto.edu> (raw)
Hi,
As the subject suggests, we are wondering whether there is any way to
restrict certain classes of users from performing any action other than
powering a VM up and down, and resetting it?
If this can't be done with KVM, does anybody have suggestions on how
this can be accomplished? The only way I can think of is with a setuid
binary that can only start VMs and send reset and shutdown commands to
its monitor socket. However, this does seem hackish and can be insecure
if it's not written perfectly.
Cheers,
Iordan
next reply other threads:[~2011-06-08 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 18:10 Iordan Iordanov [this message]
2011-06-09 8:14 ` restricting users to only power control of VMs Avi Kivity
2011-06-21 21:45 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-06-22 8:00 ` Avi Kivity
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