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author | Osier Yang <jyang@redhat.com> | 2011-01-27 22:08:25 +0800 |
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committer | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2011-01-27 20:47:17 -0700 |
commit | cc4447b68abf647ad41810b490c6a7b2d0291fd2 (patch) | |
tree | 7c66d7cd0a91d9c1c29a7d471bb9477f8e08b124 /docs/remote.html.in | |
parent | b96b6f47231504e44132e711202f74de29e05eaa (diff) | |
download | libvirt-cc4447b68abf647ad41810b490c6a7b2d0291fd2.tar.gz |
docs: Add docs for new extra parameter pkipath
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diff --git a/docs/remote.html.in b/docs/remote.html.in index b0fdb7c2ef..33dbba2847 100644 --- a/docs/remote.html.in +++ b/docs/remote.html.in @@ -308,6 +308,21 @@ Note that parameter values must be <td colspan="2"/> <td> Example: <code>no_tty=1</code> </td> </tr> + <tr> + <td> + <code>pkipath</code> + </td> + <td> tls</td> + <td> + Specifies x509 certificates path for the client. If any of + the CA certificate, client certificate, or client key is + missing, the connection will fail with a fatal error. + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td colspan="2"/> + <td> Example: <code>pkipath=/tmp/pki/client</code> </td> + </tr> </table> <h3> <a name="Remote_certificates">Generating TLS certificates</a> @@ -372,6 +387,21 @@ next section. </td> </tr> </table> + <p> + If 'pkipath' is specified in URI, then all the client + certificates must be found in the path specified, otherwise the + connection will fail with a fatal error. If 'pkipath' is not + specified: + </p> + <ul> + <li> For a non-root user, libvirt tries to find the certificates + in $HOME/.pki/libvirt. If any of the required certificates can + not be found, then the global default locations + (/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem, /etc/pki/libvirt/private/clientkey, + /etc/pki/libvirt/clientcert.pem) will be used. + </li> + <li> For the root user, the global default locations will be used.</li> + </ul> <h4> <a name="Remote_TLS_background">Background to TLS certificates</a> </h4> |