Forwarding to devel: In short: does the guest agent really need to use "usermode" for shutdown? Simple sudoer rights should suffice and greatly reduce the dependency tree. -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [Users] Ubuntu & Debian guest agent Datum: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:16:48 +0000 Von: Sven Kieske <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de&gt; An: users(a)ovirt.org <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; Okay, i was able to resolve some of my questions already with the help of Vinzenz Feenstra in ovirt IRC (Thanks again). I'm somewhat impressed, the agent reports IPv4 addresses and even multiple ipv6 addresses from the vm. But I have some additional question: There is a huge dependency tree, resulting in the download of the following packages on Ubuntu 12.04.3: fontconfig fontconfig-config hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie1 libfontconfig1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libjasper1 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 libnl1 libpango1.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libuser1 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 python-ethtool shared-mime-info ttf-dejavu-core usermode I investigated a little and it seems that most of this stuff (graphic libs) gets pulled in by the package "usermode" which is a graphical tool for end users for manipulating passwords etc. I can understand that this tool might be needed for SSO and okay for desktop users. But I want to ask if it can't be substituted through sudo or similar commandline tools for the purpose of installing the agent on a server. from a security perspective you don't want files like libjpeg on your server if you don't need them. I don't know how/why exactly usermode is used/needed so maybe this can be changed? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users