[Bug 621639] [NEW] Please include sasl support into KVM

[Christian Roessner]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kvm

Hi all,

Please include sasl support into KVM.

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Hi Dustin,

sorry if I bother you, but could it be that kvm lacks sasl support for
the vnc flag? I checked the debian/control file and saw that sasl was
not included. Why? Without it, VNC only would work over x509, but there
are nearly no vnc viewers that support x509. So I consider this a lack
of security.

I enabled vnc with:

-vnc :1,sasl,acl

The acl_show vnc.username says: unknown list

Please, if this is a bug, can you rebuild kvm with sasl-support?

Hi Christian,

This may be an easy thing to fix, if the necessary build dependency is
in the Ubuntu main archive (rather than universe).

FWIW, qemu-kvm/configure suggests cyrus-sasl, which is in main.
So, like Dustin said, please file a bug and we should be able to
get that in lickity-split.

thanks,
-serge

I see several sasl-related packages in the archive...  Specifically
which one are you requesting that we build qemu-kvm against?

Sorry it took me so long to find this email...ideally, you'd file this
as a wishlist bug against qemu-kvm in Launchpad.net, and I probably
would have gotten to it by now :-)

Thanks,
-- 
:-Dustin
--snap--

Thanks
Christian

** Affects: kvm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Please include sasl support into KVM
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