X-Git-Url: https://code.grnet.gr/git/ganeti-local/blobdiff_plain/0a689f7986c4023cdcbb88941baa93c6dce85194..cd30f3e6fd2d61be889e40a49f4616eaa66aa90d:/doc/security.rst diff --git a/doc/security.rst b/doc/security.rst index 6b34adf..34dc09d 100644 --- a/doc/security.rst +++ b/doc/security.rst @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ non-Linux system at the moment. Conf daemon ----------- -In Ganeti 2.7, the ``confd`` daemon (if enabled at build time), serves +In Ganeti 2.8, the ``confd`` daemon (if enabled at build time), serves both network-originated queries (about the static configuration) and local (UNIX socket) queries (about the run-time configuration; answering these means talking to other cluster nodes, which makes use of the @@ -138,10 +138,13 @@ RPC), so to harden security it's recommended to: - disable confd at build time if it's not needed in your setup - otherwise, configure Ganeti (at build time) to use separate users, so that the confd daemon doesn't also have access to the server SSL/TLS - certificates + certificates. -It is planned to split the two functionalities (local/remote querying) -of confd into two separate daemons in a future Ganeti version. +NB: the second suggestion is not valid since Ganeti 2.8.0~beta1, because confd +needs access to the certificate in order to communicate on the network. +This will be fixed when the planned split of the two functionalities +(local/remote querying) of confd into two separate daemons will take place, +in a future Ganeti version. Monitoring daemon -----------------