Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/11] authz: add QAuthZList object type for an access control list

[Markus Armbruster]

Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:28:23AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 06/15/2018 10:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden>
>> > 
>> > Add a QAuthZList object type that implements the QAuthZ interface. This
>> > built-in implementation maintains a trivial access control list with a
>> > sequence of match rules and a final default policy. This replicates the
>> > functionality currently provided by the qemu_acl module.
>> > 
>> 
>> > 
>> > It is not currently possible to create this via -object, since there is
>> > no syntax supported to specify non-scalar properties for objects. This
>> > is likely to be addressed by later support for using JSON with -object,
>> > or an equivalent approach.
>> 
>> Is this statement slightly stale, since we have JSON support with --object
>> already?
>
> That's news to me if we do. Markus did a PoC but AFAIK it was never
> proposed for merge so far.

Correct.  Can finish the job if there's a need.

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