From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] This patch adds a new block driver : iSCSI
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:02:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110915080208.GB29309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN05THQDtk-ZhO1LVjesM0mgcHBj7rG_Qz6GoNqc_5GW8KLy3g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:51:00AM +1000, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> ...
> >> > +/*
> >> > + * We support iscsi url's on the form
> >> > + * iscsi://[<username>%<password>@]<host>[:<port>]/<targetname>/<lun>
> >> > + */
> >
> > Is having username + password on the command line really a that good idea?
> > Also what about the more complicated iSCSI authentification schemes?
>
> In general it is a very bad idea. For local use on a private box it is
> convenient to be able to use "<username>%<password>@" syntax.
> For use on a shared box, libiscsi supports an alternative method too
> by setting the username and/or password via environment variables :
> LIBISCSI_CHAP_USERNAME=... LIBISCSI_CHAP_PASSWORD=...
Environement variables are only a tiny bit better, since this still allows
the password to leak to any processes which can read /proc/$PID/environ.
It is also undesirable wrt many distro trouble shooting tools (eg Fedora/
RHEL's sosreport) which capture the contents of /proc/$PID/environ as part
of their data collection process. This means your passwords will end up
in attachments to bugzilla / issue tracker tickets.
For block devs with encrypted QCow2 disks (and VNC/SPICE) QEMU requires the
password to be set via the monitor. Since this iscsi: protocol is part of
the block layer, IMHO, the password should be settable the same way via the
monitor
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-15 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-10 4:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-10 4:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] This patch adds a new block driver : iSCSI Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-12 9:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 14:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-16 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-17 7:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 22:51 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 8:02 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2011-09-15 9:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-14 23:08 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 6:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 8:48 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 9:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 11:27 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 11:42 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 11:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-15 12:01 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 12:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 11:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 12:34 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 12:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 16:59 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 9:44 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-09-15 9:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-15 9:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-21 9:48 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-23 9:15 ` Mark Wu
2011-09-23 10:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-12 8:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU Kevin Wolf
2011-09-14 12:24 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-14 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 15:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 16:36 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 6:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 9:52 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 9:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 10:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-17 19:08 ` Laurent Vivier
2011-09-18 7:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-14 16:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-14 22:46 ` ronnie sahlberg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-21 9:37 Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-21 9:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] This patch adds a new block driver : iSCSI Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-21 9:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-21 9:52 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-27 20:08 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-28 5:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-29 6:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-09 20:46 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-10-13 9:46 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-10-13 9:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-13 9:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-13 10:01 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-10-13 10:55 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-10-13 10:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-24 13:33 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-25 8:04 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-10-25 8:17 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-25 8:23 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-10-25 8:46 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-28 10:46 ` Zhi Yong Wu
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