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nova-rootwrap
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Root wrapper for Nova
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:Author: openstack@lists.openstack.org
:Date:   2012-09-27
:Copyright: OpenStack Foundation
:Version: 2012.1
:Manual section: 1
:Manual group: cloud computing

SYNOPSIS
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  nova-rootwrap [options]

DESCRIPTION
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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).


OPTIONS
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 **General options**

FILES
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* /etc/nova/nova.conf
* /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf
* /etc/nova/rootwrap.d/

SEE ALSO
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* `OpenStack Nova <http://nova.openstack.org>`__
* `OpenStack Nova <http://nova.openstack.org>`__

BUGS
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* Nova is sourced in Launchpad so you can view current bugs at `OpenStack Nova <http://nova.openstack.org>`__