Alright, do you mean that the libvirtd daemon is started by the nova user? And the nova user has the same privilege as the root user?
----- Original message -----
From: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
To: "openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org" <OpenStack-discuss@lists.openstack.org>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [nova] Why nova needs password-less SSH to do live migraiton?
Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2020 18:27
On 11/3/20 9:18 AM, Zhi CZ Chang wrote:
> Hi, Thomas
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> In your environment, you use the "root" user for authenticating with
> each other compute node, rather than the "nova" user, right?
> If so, why use the "root" user rather than the "nova" user then
> privilege the root permission to the "nova" user?
>
> Thanks
> Zhi Chang
Hi,
No, the username is "nova", not "root".
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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