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    authz: add QAuthZPAM object type for authorizing using PAM · 8953caf3
    Daniel P. Berrange authored
    Add an authorization backend that talks to PAM to check whether the user
    identity is allowed. This only uses the PAM account validation facility,
    which is essentially just a check to see if the provided username is permitted
    access. It doesn't use the authentication or session parts of PAM, since
    that's dealt with by the relevant part of QEMU (eg VNC server).
    
    Consider starting QEMU with a VNC server and telling it to use TLS with
    x509 client certificates and configuring it to use an PAM to validate
    the x509 distinguished name. In this example we're telling it to use PAM
    for the QAuthZ impl with a service name of "qemu-vnc"
    
     $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
         -object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=/home/berrange/security/qemutls,\
                 endpoint=server,verify-peer=yes \
         -object authz-pam,id=authz0,service=qemu-vnc \
         -vnc :1,tls-creds=tls0,tls-authz=authz0
    
    This requires an /etc/pam/qemu-vnc file to be created with the auth
    rules. A very sim...
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