Re: [libvirt-users] Issues Connecting to Remote Host Through SSH

John Ferlan
2018-01-23T14:05:31Z

On 01/23/2018 04:53 AM, T A wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been unable to connect to a remote host from within my network
> using the following argument.
>
> virsh/virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://user@host:port/system
>
> I've tried libssh & libssh2 as well. Using ssh just prompts me for
the
> host password indefinitely. When using libssh2 the connection is rejected.

There was an issue with virsh corrected by libvirt 3.4.0 where virsh
would continue prompting for password as a result of polkit and
pkttyagent interactions

See:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374126

or the upstream commit:

    https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=2453501fc8

Perhaps that's what you're bumping into at least w/r/t the indefinite
password prompting.

John

>
> The host computer is using a custom ssh port which I've added to the
> above argument. Neither box has an enabled root user.
>
> Remote box
>
> $ cat /etc/debian_version
> 9.3
>
> $ ssh -V
> OpenSSH_7.4p1 Debian-10+deb9u2, OpenSSL 1.0.2l  25 May 2017
>
> $ virsh --version
> 3.0.0
>
> Host box
>
> $ cat /etc/centos-release
> CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
>
> $ ssh -V
> OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017
>
> $ virsh --version
> 3.2.0
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
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