[ovirt-users] autologin into vm desktop

Adolfo agomez at virtualcable.es
Thu May 7 03:10:04 UTC 2015


O.o that is what i was looking for!!!... Has to take a BIG look at it... ;)

Thank you very much again, i was looking for this, but after "googling" 
a lot didn't found it!!! ;)

Adolfo Gómez


El 07/05/2015 a las 5:05, Dan Yasny escribió:
> ...and it looks like in the latest versions the REST API has 
> //vms/{vmid}/logon/
> /
> /
> /https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.5/html/Technical_Guide/sect-Actions5.html#Enable_user_logon_to_access_a_virtual_machine_from_an_external_console
> /
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Dan Yasny <dyasny at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dyasny at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     You can pass the credentials directly to the guest agent using
>     vdsClient on the host, among other things:
>
>     desktopLock
>             <vmId>
>             Logoff current user
>     desktopLogin
>             <vmId> <domain> <user> <password>
>             Login to vmId desktop using the supplied credentials
>     desktopLogoff
>             <vmId> <force>
>             Lock user session. force should be set to true/false
>
>     Will probably require key based remote ssh execution, and API
>     calls to the engine, to determine the host and VM UUID
>
>     On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Adolfo <agomez at virtualcable.es
>     <mailto:agomez at virtualcable.es>> wrote:
>
>         I know, but this all is used from "ovirt portal", and we are
>         only using ovirt api, the portal is provided by own broker :)
>
>         I'm currently looking at the code of vdsClient, to see if i
>         can replicate the "desktopLogin" feature.
>
>         This was why i was wondering if this is the place to post
>         this, because it's more related to "development", but not to
>         de development of ovirt itself (or yes, don't know right
>         now... :) )
>
>         Thank you
>
>         Adolfo Gómez
>
>
>
>         El 07/05/2015 a las 4:40, Dan Yasny escribió:
>>         This is exactly what the SSO feature is for.
>>
>>         http://www.ovirt.org/Features/SSO
>>         http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Guest_Agent/Single_Sign_On/Windows
>>         https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.1/html/Power_User_Portal_Guide/Single_Sign_On-Windows.html
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Adolfo
>>         <agomez at virtualcable.es <mailto:agomez at virtualcable.es>> wrote:
>>
>>             Hello,
>>
>>             My name is Adolfo. I'm in charge of the development of
>>             UDS, an open source connection broker (with commercial
>>             support if requested)
>>             (http://www.ovirt.org/Universidad_de_Sevilla_Case_Study
>>             is done with it for example).
>>
>>             I don't know if this is the place to post this "request
>>             for help", if not, please forgive me :)
>>
>>             The case is that we are including Spice as an accepted
>>             protocol for connecting to VMs (currently we allow rdp,
>>             rgs, nx, ...) provided by oVirt, and we have found the
>>             following "issue".
>>
>>             It's ease to get the connection parameters for the VM
>>             using REST api, even get the ticket for allowing
>>             connection, but i have been looking for a way "logging
>>             user" directly into desktop, not only connect to
>>             "display" but also "log in" into remote without needed to
>>             use a second authentication.
>>
>>             I have seen that oVirt Portal currently allows this, and
>>             i have found also that vsdClient can do login using
>>             "vdsClient -s <HOSTIP> desktopLogin <VMID> <DOMAIN>
>>             <USER> <PASSWORD>", and although it is possible to use
>>             this, it will be a bit "tricky" to get it working i think.
>>
>>             My question is... ¿Is any way of doing "desktop login"
>>             using REST API, or any other "simple method" from an
>>             external app such as this broker?.
>>
>>             ¿If yes, how? :-)
>>             ¿If not, will be support for this an anyone knows how?
>>
>>             Thank you, and again, if this is not the correct list,
>>             sorry for the annoyance.
>>
>>             Adolfo Gómez
>>
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