[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Secure XML-RPC for Xend
> The following patch implements a secure XML-RPC protocol for Xend. > Instead of using HTTPS with basic authentication and dealing with all > that nasty OpenSSL/PAM integration, it just uses SSH. This gives you > all the properties you want (great security and PAM integration) with > very little code. I think we just have to bite the bullet on this one. OpenSSL/PAM integration isn't that hard, and it makes things much cleaner from a client point of view, which is what really matters. We can always use "stunnel" to make life easier. Ian > There are some minor issues so I'd rather it not be applied > immediately. I'd like to get some feedback from people as to whether > this approach is reasonable. A user-facing change is that now you can > use the XM_SERVER environmental variable to specific an XML-RPC URI. > > For instance: > > XM_SERVER='ssh://root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/RPC2' xm list > > Runs xm list on a local machine but does all of the RPCs over a secure > connection (prompting for passwords). > > Thoughts? > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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