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Re: [Qemu-devel] Cryptic errors from PIP install if missing openssl-deve
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Lukáš Doktor |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Cryptic errors from PIP install if missing openssl-devel |
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Tue, 3 Sep 2019 17:56:26 +0200 |
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Dne 03. 09. 19 v 17:47 Cleber Rosa napsal(a):
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 05:22:48PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 9/3/19 5:08 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:46:15AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>>
>>>> class avocado.utils.ssh.Session(address, credentials)
>>>>
>>>> Parameters:
>>>>
>>>> credentials (tuple)
>>>> username and path to a key for authentication purposes
>>>>
>>>> The current test uses username + password.
>>>> Can we use this credentials with the Avocado module?
>>>> (The image used is prebuilt).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm working on adding password based authentication. To keep the API
>>> the same, I'm thinking of checking if the second credential item is an
>>> existing file, if it is, assume one containing a key. If not, assume
>>> it's a password.
>>
>> Why not use a dictionary? Keys would be explicit.
>>
>
> Now it's clear that a dict would've been the best option from the
> beginning, but I was wrongly optimistic, and biased by the
> "avocado.utils.vmimage" + "avocado.utils.cloudinit" combination, that
> we'd only have to deal with key based auth.
>
> So the question now is really how to evolve the API, either breaking
> the current version or not. At this time, I'd try to keep the API
> unchanged, given that it still feels logical that the tuple is about
> credentials, just that the second item can be either a path to a key
> or password.
>
> Thoughts?
> - Cleber.
>
How old is this feature? I guess it's not yet widely used so it's probably
better to change it now than suffer the consequences when hundreds of people
rely on it...
Regards,
Lukáš
PS: My favorited solution would be:
with Session(addr=(hostname, port), username="user", key="/path/to/key",
password="pass"):
...
>>> This should make the use simple in the case of keys:
>>>
>>> with Session(('hostname', port),
>>> ('username', '/path/to/key')) as session:
>>> session.cmd('cmd')
>>>
>>> And passwords:
>>>
>>> with Session(('hostname', port),
>>> ('username', 'p@ssw0rD')) as session:
>>> session.cmd('cmd')
>>>
>>> It's being tracked here:
>>>
>>> https://trello.com/c/uetpIgML/1517-avocadoutilssh-implement-password-based-auth
>>>
>>> I'll try to have it in Avocado's 72.0 release due next week.
>>>
>>> Let me know how that sounds, and thanks for the feedback.
>>> - Cleber.
>>>
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