[Xen-users] how do i use xen api with key and cert?

["stephan nies" <nies.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am forwarding this from the xen-api mailing-list,
because it seems to be quite dormant.

I hope someone here might be able to answer the
following question.

Cheers,
Stephan


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: stephan nies <nies.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Nov 22, 2007 7:30 PM
Subject: how do i use xen api with key and cert?
To: xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Hello,

I would like to use the xen-api with key and cert

System:
- Debian Etch
- Xen 3.1 compiled from source
- python-pam installed
- python-pyopenssl installed

I did set up a key and a self signed cert:

openssl genrsa -out ca.key 1024
openssl req -new -key ca.key -out ca.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in ca.csr -signkey ca.key -out ca.crt

put that under /root/ssl

and modified /etc/
(xen-api-server ((9367 pam '' /root/ssl/ca.key /root/ssl/ca.crt)
                       (unix none)))

restarted xend:
/etc/init.d/xend restart

seems to work :
since in /var/log/xen/xend.log i found this line
[2007-11-22 19:14:11 21880] INFO (__init__:1072) Opening HTTPS XML-RPC
server on all interfaces, port 9367.
[2007-11-22 19:14:11 21880] INFO (__init__:1072) Opening Unix domain
socket XML-RPC server on /var/run/xend/xen-api.sock; authentication
has been disabled for this server.
[2007-11-22 19:14:11 21880] INFO (__init__:1072) Opening Unix domain
socket XML-RPC server on /var/run/xend/xmlrpc.sock.

also netstat -l reports:
tcp        0      0 *:9367                  *:*                     LISTEN


But I cant figure out how to call from the client side,
what do I have to provide for user and password?

I tried:
python
>> import xmlrpclib
>> xen = xmlrpclib.Server("https://server_name:9367";)
>> xen.session.login_with_password('<name_in_cert>','<optional_password_in_cert>')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in request
    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1274, in _parse_response
    response = sock.recv(1024)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 1051, in recv
    return self._ssl.read(len)
socket.sslerror: (6, 'TLS/SSL connection has been closed')

So can you please give an example how to attach to a key+cert-secured
xen-api xml-rpc service.

Cheers,
Stephan

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