[ovirt-devel] ovirt-engine-sdk session authentication

[Juan Hernández]

On 01/04/2015 05:12 AM, Tony James wrote:
> Does ovirt-engine-sdk support session authentication to avoid using a username and password?  It appears this functionality was added to ovirt-engine-sdk-java [1].
> 
> [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12818/

No, the Python SDK doesn't currently support that, and there are no
plans to add support for it.

Note that what the Java SDK supports is taking the session identifier
from somewhere and re-using it. That isn't very useful, as most clients
will close their session when they finish, potentially and unexpectedly
rendering the the re-used session invalid.

If you aren't trying to re-use a session then having this capability
won't help you, as you will anyhow need to authenticate at least once
using the user name and password.

Version 3.6 of the SDKs (Python and Java) will support Kerberos
authentication:

  http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Kerberos_Support_in_SDKs_and_CLI#Python_SDK

Depending on your actual requirements this may be a better fit.

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