From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] let management expire vnc password
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:03:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC3C798.2090703@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090930164553.GA8310@redhat.com>
Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> The rationale is central management of access to virtual machines.
>
> Normally, no vnc access to VMs is allowed. A user with enough
> credentials may request the management tool for a short-lived
> "ticket" to connect to a VM. If the user uses it, great. But after the
> ticket expires, no further connections are allowed.
>
Couldn't you implement the same feature with an IP tables rule (prevent
new connections from being established)?
I'm not convinced this functionality is very useful generally so I think
I'd prefer not to merge it.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 8:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] let management expire vnc password Dan Kenigsberg
2009-09-30 13:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-30 14:03 ` Dan Kenigsberg
2009-09-30 14:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-30 16:45 ` Dan Kenigsberg
2009-09-30 21:03 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-10-02 9:58 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-10-02 13:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-02 14:49 ` Jamie Lokier
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