Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/6] qemu-nbd: add support for authorization of TLS clients

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 06/20/2018 07:14 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
> 
> Currently any client which can complete the TLS handshake is able to use
> the NBD server. The server admin can turn on the 'verify-peer' option
> for the x509 creds to require the client to provide a x509 certificate.
> This means the client will have to acquire a certificate from the CA
> before they are permitted to use the NBD server. This is still a fairly
> low bar to cross.
> 
> This adds a '--tls-authz OBJECT-ID' option to the qemu-nbd command which
> takes the ID of a previously added 'QAuthZ' object instance. This will
> be used to validate the client's x509 distinguished name. Clients
> failing the authorization check will not be permitted to use the NBD
> server.
> 
> For example to setup authorization that only allows connection from a client
> whose x509 certificate distinguished name is
> 
>     CN=laptop.example.com,O=Example Org,L=London,ST=London,C=GB

Is the space in O= intentional?

> 
> use:
> 
>    qemu-nbd --object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=/home/berrange/qemutls,\
>                      endpoint=server,verify-peer=yes \
>             --object authz-simple,id=auth0,identity=CN=laptop.example.com,,\
>                      O=Example Org,,L=London,,ST=London,,C=GB \

you need shell quoting to preserve the space. Also, the indentation 
breaks the intent that these long lines are single arguments, not 
separate arguments.

>             --tls-creds tls0 \
>             --tls-authz authz0
> 	   ....other qemu-nbd args...

Is it also worth a sample command line using JSON syntax?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>   include/block/nbd.h |  2 +-
>   nbd/server.c        | 10 +++++-----
>   qemu-nbd.c          | 13 ++++++++++++-
>   qemu-nbd.texi       |  4 ++++
>   4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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