[ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 test day 2 results

[Simone Tiraboschi]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka at redhat.com>
> To: "Simone Tiraboschi" <stirabos at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:06:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] oVirt 3.5 test day 2 results
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:04:10 -0400 (EDT)
> Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > We choose that way to avoid to ask to the user to provide the root password
> > of the engine host, in order to automatically copying files via SCP or
> > executing commands over ssh on the remote host, for security reasons.
> > I agree with you that due to that assumption this result is not so usable.
> 
> '...no so usable', this is joke. It's real design failure. Do not take
> this personally but whoever approved this did bad job.

No, of course: I'm not so proud of it too. :-)

A previous attempt used ssh and scp to do all automatically but it was rejected being judged not so secure.
Avoiding to use ssh and scp so seams a strong requirement; if you have any better idea feel free to propose it.

Simone