NOVA-ROOTWRAP(1)

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

SYNOPSIS

        nova-rootwrap CONFIG_FILE COMMMAND

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.

FILES

    •   /etc/nova/nova.conf

    •   /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf

    •   /etc/nova/rootwrap.d/

SEE ALSO

nova-compute(1)

BUGS

    •   Nova bugs are managed at Launchpad

AUTHOR
openstack@lists.openstack.org

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