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* Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
* Tracker bug: [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998507 #998507]


== Detailed Description ==
== Detailed Description ==
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* Proposal owners:
* Proposal owners:
# 90% of the work is already in rawhide
# 100% of the work is already in rawhide
# Documentation needs to be written
# Documentation is written


* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
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== How To Test ==
== How To Test ==
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TBD when work is testable.
See the test case at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Virt_ACLs


== User Experience ==
== User Experience ==
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* General docs on access control system http://libvirt.org/acl.html
* General docs on access control system http://libvirt.org/acl.html
* Polkit driver usage / config http://libvirt.org/aclpolkit.html
* Polkit driver usage / config http://libvirt.org/aclpolkit.html
* XXX: should blog about this when ready
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Virt_ACLs


== Release Notes ==
== Release Notes ==

Latest revision as of 18:16, 4 October 2013

Role based access control with libvirt

Summary

Allow role based access control with libvirt.

Owner

Current status

Detailed Description

Libvirt role based access control will allow fine grained access control like 'user FOO can only start/stop/pause vm BAR', but for all libvirt APIs and objects.

Benefit to Fedora

  • Nice, new, oft requested feature is finally available that we can advertise for Fedora 20.

Scope

  • Proposal owners:
  1. 100% of the work is already in rawhide
  2. Documentation is written
  • Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

See the test case at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Virt_ACLs

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Documentation

Release Notes

Libvirt now supports role based access control, which allows setting rules such as 'user FOO can only start/stop/pause vm BAR'.