Please include sasl support into KVM
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kvm
Hi all,
Please include sasl support into KVM.
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Hi Dustin,
sorry if I bother you, but could it be that kvm lacks sasl support for the vnc flag? I checked the debian/control file and saw that sasl was not included. Why? Without it, VNC only would work over x509, but there are nearly no vnc viewers that support x509. So I consider this a lack of security.
I enabled vnc with:
-vnc :1,sasl,acl
The acl_show vnc.username says: unknown list
Please, if this is a bug, can you rebuild kvm with sasl-support?
Hi Christian,
This may be an easy thing to fix, if the necessary build dependency is
in the Ubuntu main archive (rather than universe).
FWIW, qemu-kvm/configure suggests cyrus-sasl, which is in main.
So, like Dustin said, please file a bug and we should be able to
get that in lickity-split.
thanks,
-serge
I see several sasl-related packages in the archive... Specifically
which one are you requesting that we build qemu-kvm against?
Sorry it took me so long to find this email...ideally, you'd file this
as a wishlist bug against qemu-kvm in Launchpad.net, and I probably
would have gotten to it by now :-)
Thanks,
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:-Dustin
--snap--
Thanks
Christian
Related branches
affects: | kvm (Ubuntu) → qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) |
Hi Christian, thanks for the bug report!
I think this looks like a reasonable request, but I have question...
Is this a new build-time dependency, or just a run time dependency?
ie, if you just 'sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm cyrus-sasl', and then run with vnc/sasl, does it work?
If so, we can simply add a recommends on cyrus-sasl.
Or, does qemu-kvm need to be rebuilt with some additional sasl library? If so, what is the exact library we need to compile against?
Thanks!
:-Dustin