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RE: [Xen-devel] Individual passwords for guest VNC servers ?

To: "Masami Watanabe" <masami.watanabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Individual passwords for guest VNC servers ?
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:23:47 +0100
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> Thanks all point about security, I'll do as follows.
> I thought that the point was the following two. 
> 
> 
> 1. Storage place of encrypted password
>   Should I store it in /etc/xen/passwd ?
>     Or, should I wait for DB of Xen that will be released in 
> the future?

The xend life cycle management patches were posted by Alistair a couple
of months back. They'll go in early in the 3.0.4 cycle.

>   In the latter case, the release time and information, I want you to
>   teach it.
>   Now, I think we have no choice but to use /etc/xen/passwd.

In the mean time, I'd just out them in the domain config file and change
the default permissions and ownership.

> 2. Method of Xen VNC Server receiving stored password
>   By way of xenstore. However, it is necessary to consider 
> xenstore-ls.

It can be passed transiently (i.e. it gets deleted from the store by
qemu-dm)
You need to be root to run xenstore-ls so I'm comfortable with this.

Ian

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