[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk 0/5] Add support for looking up connection credentials in a file

[Marc-André Lureau]

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> Hey,
> 
> This patch series adds support for something similar to what is described
> in http://libvirt.org/auth.html: when a password is needed but it hasn't
> been provided, we search for a file containing the auth info. It can be
> specified through an environment variable, in the SPICE URI, then it's
> looked up in XDG_CONFIG_DIR, and finally in /etc/libvirt/auth.conf.  There
> are a few things that may deserve polishing in this scheme:
> - it's quite libvirt centered with respects to the naming of the env var,
>   of the default dir locations, ...
> - the port number needs to be added to the auth-$SERVICE-$HOSTNAME scheme
>   described on http://libvirt.org/auth.html as multiple VMs can run on the
>   same host
> - it does not go very well with libvirt automatic spice port allocation as
>   the credential file has to hardcode the port numbers, but the port number
>   is not fixed when using automatic allocation
> 
> I still think this can be useful to people who are looking for a way to
> pass spice password to the client without passing it on the command line as
> was suggested in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794644#c6

Spice-gtk is a library. Each Spice client may decide to provide credentials in its own way.

Why should spice-gtk bypass that? Since it's so libvirt-centered, why did you look for a solution in spice-gtk instead of virt-viewer?