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If you are sitting in front of a physical machine and logged in as a regular user, you can connect to the system libvirtd instance by providing a root password to policykit. This is how most virt-manager users talk to libvirt. However, if you are launching virt-manager over ssh -X, or over VNC started from say /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, our policykit policy rejects the user outright, providing no option to provide the root password. This is confusing to users and doesn't seem to serve much point. Change the policy to allow inactive (VNC) and non-local (SSH, VNC) to provide root credentials for accessing system libvirtd. We use auth_admin rather than auth_admin_keep so that credentials aren't cached at all, and every subsequent reconnection to libvirt requires auth. Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625115 Similar change to PackageKit policy: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528511
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>