From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>,
Roman Drahtmueller <draht@suse.de>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:23:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCDB3E9.4070805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FCD5F78.9090102@codemonkey.ws>
Hi,
>> Which gets me to a new idea. Why not exit(1) when we detect FIPS and a
>> password is set? I agree with the assessment that we should never
>> silently drop features. So the best way to make sure that the user
>> knows he did something stupid (enable FIPS, but require a non-FIPS
>> compliant authentication method) would be to just quit, no?
>
> I think my primary requirement is: allow a user to use vnc
> authentication even when fips mode is active by using some command line
> option.
That doesn't make sense to me at all. If fips is enabled by accident
just disable it. If fips is enabled intentionally I don't think qemu
should ignore it and allow to use weak vnc auth. Fips users should
setup sasl instead I guess ...
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-05 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-02 19:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode Paul Moore
2012-05-03 8:29 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-03 8:51 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-03 8:57 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-03 9:01 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-03 9:03 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-03 9:06 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-03 9:09 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-03 9:11 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-03 20:58 ` Paul Moore
2012-05-03 9:04 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-03 20:51 ` Paul Moore
2012-05-03 14:54 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-03 20:54 ` Paul Moore
2012-05-04 2:01 ` Roman Drahtmueller
2012-05-04 12:39 ` Paul Moore
2012-05-04 12:42 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-06-03 0:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-04 18:16 ` Paul Moore
2012-06-04 23:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-04 23:17 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-04 23:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-05 0:55 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-05 1:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-05 1:08 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-05 1:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-05 1:29 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-05 7:23 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-06-05 21:45 ` Paul Moore
2012-06-05 21:51 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-05 22:06 ` Paul Moore
2012-06-05 23:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-05 23:56 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-06 22:56 ` Paul Moore
2012-06-07 3:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-07 10:31 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-07 13:21 ` Paul Moore
2012-06-08 21:37 ` Paul Moore
2012-06-11 13:33 ` Roman Drahtmueller
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