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authorOsier Yang <jyang@redhat.com>2011-01-27 22:08:25 +0800
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2011-01-27 20:47:17 -0700
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docs: Add docs for new extra parameter pkipath
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@@ -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>