Re: [libvirt] tls_allowed_ip_list?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:50:54AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:13:14AM +0100, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> > All,
> >      While doing testing on TLS, I came across the mention of
> > "tls_allowed_ip_list" in the website documentation, here:
> > 
> > http://libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_libvirtd_configuration
> > 
> > However, I don't see any implementation of the tls_allowed_ip_list in libvirt
> > itself; a grep through the sources show that we are implementing
> > "tls_allowed_dn_list", but not "tls_allowed_ip_list".  Am I missing something in
> > the sources?  Should we update the libvirt.org documentation and remove that
> > (seemingly non-existent) parameter?  Or should I go in and implement the
> > "tls_allowed_ip_list"?
> 
> That functionality was removed because it is utterly worthless as an
> access control feature, and if you want to block rogue IP (ranges) you
> can do it in iptables far more efficiently & flexibly anyway. The
> docs just need to be removed

  okay, even simpler, I will do it before the release !

Daniel

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