[libvirt] [dbus RFC 05/11] connect: don't use default libvirt authentication callback

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 06:16:03PM +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> We need to implement our own authentication callback because the
> default one ask for credentials using STDIO.  This is not suitable
> behavior for daemon.
> 
> For now we will require usage of client configuration file for libvirt
> to provide credentials for drivers that require authentication [1].
> 
> [1] <https://libvirt.org/auth.html#Auth_client_config>

This is a long standing bug we should look at fixing one day. We should
make it possible to rely on the auth config file from a simple call to
virConnectOpen(), so people only need to use OpenAuth() when they have
a genuine callback to provide....

> Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/connect.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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