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NOVA-ROOTWRAP(1) nova NOVA-ROOTWRAP(1)

NAME

nova-rootwrap - Root wrapper daemon for the OpenStack Compute service.

SYNOPSIS

nova-rootwrap [<options>...]


DESCRIPTION

nova-rootwrap is an application that filters which commands nova is allowed to run as another user.

To use this, you should set the following in nova.conf:

rootwrap_config=/etc/nova/rootwrap.conf


You also need to let the nova user run nova-rootwrap as root in sudoers:

nova ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf *


To make allowed commands node-specific, your packaging should only install {compute,network}.filters respectively on compute and network nodes, i.e. nova-api nodes should not have any of those files installed.

NOTE:

nova-rootwrap is being slowly deprecated and replaced by oslo.privsep, and will eventually be removed.


OPTIONS

General options

FILES

  • /etc/nova/nova.conf
  • /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf
  • /etc/nova/rootwrap.d/

SEE ALSO

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:nova-doc:`OpenStack Nova <>`


BUGS

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Nova bugs are managed at Launchpad

AUTHOR

openstack@lists.openstack.org

COPYRIGHT

2010-present, OpenStack Foundation

July 12, 2021