[Engine-devel] Couple of small Feature Requests

[David Jaša]

Dead Horse píše v Út 16. 10. 2012 v 21:51 -0500:
> The point is valid on the random passwords in a secured environment.
> However that being said the randomly generated password does make it a
> pain when interacting with HTML5 based clients (SPICE or VNC) or any
> standalone client for that matter.
> 

Web client: 
      * if it is integrated with UP/webadmin, the portal should give it
        password in exactly the same as it gives the password to the
        plugin
      * if it is not tied to any portal, then you should be able to
        issue XMLHttpRequest to the REST API asking for password and
        extract the temporary password from the reply (IIUC it has to
        engage rest api anyway to get host/port/sport/ca/subject info)

Standalone application can engage REST too:
http://cfergeau.blogspot.cz/2012/07/outside-boxes.html


> At the very least can this to be made to be configurable? The default
> can be as is but at the very least allow for configurable VNC or SPICE
> passwords if so desired..
> 
> Curiously I know that the Web UI does not allow for this now but is it
> possible to change the password policies via any existing engine or
> vdsm configurations/parameters?
> EG:
> - default 120 second password re-generation, can this be altered?
> - fixed vs randomly generated password?
> 

in the REST API, you can configure password validity per request (using
<expiry> tag)

> A side note are there any plans of the horizon for integrating support
> or allowing for interaction with HTML5 based clients mostly VNC but
> with new SPICE HTML5 client?

I seem to recall RFEs for that (both novnc and spice html5) but I've got
no idea if there is somebody actually working on them.

David

> 
> - DHC
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:42 AM, David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         Dead Horse píše v Čt 11. 10. 2012 v 12:00 -0500:
>         > Would like to make a couple of small feature requests.
>         >
>         > 1) Allow for the SPICE or VNC password to be set in the UI
>         by admin's
>         > or power users.
>         > Benefit: (Assumes spice SSL has been disabled) allows user
>         or admin to
>         > set a password for access by a standalone remote session via
>         vncviewer
>         > or remote-viewer or the spice html5 implementation which is
>         WIP, or
>         > standalone HW thin client
>         > - This may also assume that vdsm is running with SSL
>         disabled as well
>         > to have had vdsm make the neccesary changes to the qemu
>         spice
>         > configuration
>         
>         
>         Drawback: users can choose repetitive and/or weak passwords.
>         Generating
>         a new random password for each connection is the best thing
>         from
>         security POV in my opinion.
>         
>         >
>         > 2) Display currently configured OR generated password and
>         IP/Port for
>         > either VNC or SPICE console of the VM within the PUP and
>         Admin UI
>         > Benefit: At the very least a standalone remote client can be
>         used to
>         > connect once the password and IP/PORT is known for spice or
>         VNC
>         >  - Currently VNC will display a dialog that shows the this
>         info but it
>         > would be more useful to have it displayed in the UI given
>         proper
>         > privilege
>         
>         
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843397
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843410
>         
>         >
>         > 3) Display the UUID of a VM in the Admin UI (similar to the
>         how the
>         > disks tab breaks down and shows DISK UUID mappings)
>         > - Benefit: Easier for administrators to map UUID to VM
>         config file
>         > data in the data stores or export domains
>         
>         
>         IMO full uuid should be displayed in General subtab only
>         because it's
>         too long to have it as a column.
>         
>         It would be nice to see it in a column though in some
>         shortened form
>         because it could probably enable relaxing of
>         unique-name-of-VM-in-whole-setup restriction.
>         
>         David
>         
>         >
>         > - DHC
>         >
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