Ubuntu
libvirt package

accessing serial port from host

Bug #916266 reported by Jürgen on 2012-01-13

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libvirt (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

when accessing the serial port with
-chardev tty,id=charserial1,path=/dev/ttyS0
the owner is changed to:
libvirt-qemu kvm

after ending the host the owner changes to

root root

but this should be the the original owner

root dialout

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote on 2012-01-18:

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.

This appears to be documented as a to-do in the code (in src/security/security_dac.c:virSecurityDACRestoreSecurityFileLabel(), which says:

/* XXX record previous ownership */
rc = virSecurityDACSetOwnership(newpath, 0, 0);

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