Libguestfs - Mar 2016 - virt-sysprep and immutable files

Greetings,

I attempted to use virt-sysprep however it failed because the
.ssh/authorized_keys file of a user had been (purposely) set immutable.
Would this be considered a bug? An obvious work around would be not to
clone vms with such files of course.

Many thanks,

Nick

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 09:50:17PM +0000, Nicholas Westlake
wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I attempted to use virt-sysprep however it failed because the
> .ssh/authorized_keys file of a user had been (purposely) set immutable.
> Would this be considered a bug? An obvious work around would be not to
> clone vms with such files of course.
Yes, this is a bug.  virt-sysprep should do something other than fail,
although I'm not sure what.  Can you file it in BZ?  What would be
better behaviour?  What was it trying to do -- inject ssh keys or
remove user accounts?

Rich.

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