Re: [Qemu-devel] Cryptic errors from PIP install if missing openssl-devel

["Lukáš Doktor" <ldoktor@redhat.com>]

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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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