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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2010-11-16 12:57:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2010-11-16 13:27:01 +0000 |
| commit | fab75c0337d7897d10ea5e95e47ac05eab81ace9 (patch) | |
| tree | a1fee811daabdcbc98489dcbb47c4b6265a1d12a /src/guestfs.pod | |
| parent | 35afe0cb33c986bf595585a716ff259cf3415a1f (diff) | |
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New API: inspect-get-hostname to return the hostname of the guest.
This returns the hostname of the guest. Tested on RHEL, Fedora,
Debian 5, Ubuntu 10.10, FreeBSD 8, Windows 7.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod index 83709827..fc58f4f1 100644 --- a/src/guestfs.pod +++ b/src/guestfs.pod @@ -1095,6 +1095,14 @@ data. Callers should be careful to escape these before printing them to a structured file (for example, use HTML escaping if creating a web page). +Guest configuration may be altered in unusual ways by the +administrator of the virtual machine, and may not reflect reality +(particularly for untrusted or actively malicious guests). For +example we parse the hostname from configuration files like +C</etc/sysconfig/network> that we find in the guest, but the guest +administrator can easily manipulate these files to provide the wrong +hostname. + The inspection API parses guest configuration using two external libraries: Augeas (Linux configuration) and hivex (Windows Registry). Both are designed to be robust in the face of malicious data, although |