From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Iordan Iordanov <iordan@cdf.toronto.edu>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: restricting users to only power control of VMs
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:14:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF08101.5070100@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DEFBB15.9080307@cdf.toronto.edu>
On 06/08/2011 09:10 PM, Iordan Iordanov wrote:
> 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.
It's a job for the management layer; I think it should be easy to script
libvirt to do this.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-09 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 18:10 restricting users to only power control of VMs Iordan Iordanov
2011-06-09 8:14 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-06-21 21:45 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-06-22 8:00 ` Avi Kivity
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