VIRT-LOGIN-SHELL(1)

NAME
virt-login-shell - tool to execute a shell within a container matching the users name

SYNOPSIS
virt-login-shell

DESCRIPTION
The virt-login-shell program is a setuid shell that is used to join an LXC container that matches the user's name. If the container is not running, virt-login-shell will attempt to start the container. virt-login-shell is not allowed to be run by root. Normal users will get added to a container that matches their username, if it exists, and they are configured in /etc/libvirt/virt-login-shell.conf.

The basic structure of most virt-login-shell usage is:

  virt-login-shell

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Display command line help usage then exit.

-V, --version
    Display version information then exit.

CONFIG
By default, virt-login-shell will execute the /bin/sh program for the user. You can modify this behaviour by defining the shell variable in /etc/libvirt/virt-login-shell.conf.

eg. shell = [ "/bin/ksh", "--login"]

By default no users are allowed to use virt-login-shell, if you want to allow certain users to use virt-login-shell, you need to modify the allowed_users variable in /etc/libvirt/virt-login-shell.conf.

eg. allowed_users = [ "tom", "dick", "harry" ]

BUGS
Report any bugs discovered to the libvirt community via the mailing list "http://libvirt.org/contact.html" or bug tracker "http://libvirt.org/bugs.html". Alternatively report bugs to your software distributor / vendor.

AUTHORS
  Please refer to the AUTHORS file distributed with libvirt.

  Daniel Walsh <dwalsh at redhat dot com>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat, Inc., and the authors listed in the libvirt AUTHORS file.

LICENSE
virt-login-shell is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2+. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

SEE ALSO
virsh(1), <http://www.libvirt.org/>