The Access tab's Root Password and SSH Keys worked only on a shut-off
VM, through gstfsd on the compute. A running VM whose QEMU guest agent
is connected now gets them through the agent: guest-set-user-password
with the SHA-512 crypt hash, and guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys adding
the key to root's keys. A shut-off VM still goes through gstfsd; any
other VM is refused with "Shut the VM down, or start its QEMU guest
agent, and try again", and the buttons are disabled.
Each is one agent command with a 10 s timeout. libvirt's own calls for
them (setUserPassword, authorizedSSHKeysSet) wait for a hung agent
indefinitely, holding a worker and the VM's lock, and the domain's
agent timeout would change every other agent call of the VM too.
The agent's or libvirt's error is shown as is through error_text, so
users who do not see the hosts get no connection details, and the
attempt is logged as failed. The README names the SELinux boolean a
RHEL-family guest needs before its agent may add SSH keys.
The page showed controls the backend then refused: power to global
viewers, the console, virt-viewer and VDI controls and the root password
and SSH key forms to viewers, resize to staff, per-vCPU hotplug, video
model and guest agent to non-superusers, clone and options by the clone
permission alone, snapshots without change permission. The page now asks
the views' own rules (owner, is_change, clone and snapshot permissions,
the template rules). OS info, opened from the header, is there for every
viewer; the XML editor and tab restoring after a redirect no longer throw
when a pane is absent; Settings opens on the first section the user has.
The authorization matrix also covers a template VM, the template clone
rule and the template snapshot rule.