Many users, who admin their own machines, want to be able to access system libvirtd via tools like virt-manager without having to enter a root password. Just google 'virt-manager without password' and you'll find many hits. I've read at least 5 blog posts over the years describing slightly different ways of achieving this goal. Let's finally add official support for this. Install a polkit-1 rules file granting password-less auth for any user in the new 'libvirt' group. Create the group on RPM install https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957300 --- v3: Back to group=libvirt to match what debian and suse are using Patch is unchanged otherwise. So unless there's objects all carry over the previous ACK from danpb and push after the release is out daemon/Makefile.am | 13 +++++++++++++ daemon/libvirt.rules | 9 +++++++++ libvirt.spec.in | 15 +++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 daemon/libvirt.rules diff --git a/daemon/Makefile.am b/daemon/Makefile.am index 300b9a5..974feed 100644 --- a/daemon/Makefile.am +++ b/daemon/Makefile.am @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ libvirtd.init.in \ libvirtd.upstart \ libvirtd.policy.in \ + libvirt.rules \ libvirtd.sasl \ libvirtd.service.in \ libvirtd.socket.in \ @@ -233,6 +234,8 @@ policyauth = auth_admin_keep_session else ! WITH_POLKIT0 policydir = $(datadir)/polkit-1/actions policyauth = auth_admin_keep +rulesdir = $(datadir)/polkit-1/rules.d +rulesfile = libvirt.rules endif ! WITH_POLKIT0 endif WITH_POLKIT @@ -263,9 +266,19 @@ if WITH_POLKIT install-data-polkit:: $(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)$(policydir) $(INSTALL_DATA) libvirtd.policy $(DESTDIR)$(policydir)/org.libvirt.unix.policy +if ! WITH_POLKIT0 + $(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)$(rulesdir) + $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/$(rulesfile) $(DESTDIR)$(rulesdir)/50-libvirt.rules +endif ! WITH_POLKIT0 + uninstall-data-polkit:: rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(policydir)/org.libvirt.unix.policy rmdir $(DESTDIR)$(policydir) || : +if ! WITH_POLKIT0 + rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(rulesdir)/50-libvirt.rules + rmdir $(DESTDIR)$(rulesdir) || : +endif ! WITH_POLKIT0 + else ! WITH_POLKIT install-data-polkit:: uninstall-data-polkit:: diff --git a/daemon/libvirt.rules b/daemon/libvirt.rules new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01a15fa --- /dev/null +++ b/daemon/libvirt.rules @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +// Allow any user in the 'libvirt' group to connect to system libvirtd +// without entering a password. + +polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { + if (action.id == "org.libvirt.unix.manage" && + subject.isInGroup("libvirt")) { + return polkit.Result.YES; + } +}); diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index 20af502..c71ef25 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -1645,9 +1645,9 @@ then fi %if %{with_libvirtd} +%pre daemon %if ! %{with_driver_modules} %if %{with_qemu} -%pre daemon %if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 6 # We want soft static allocation of well-known ids, as disk images # are commonly shared across NFS mounts by id rather than name; see @@ -1661,11 +1661,21 @@ if ! getent passwd qemu >/dev/null; then useradd -r -g qemu -G kvm -d / -s /sbin/nologin -c "qemu user" qemu fi fi -exit 0 %endif %endif %endif + %if %{with_polkit} + %if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 6 +# 'libvirt' group is just to allow password-less polkit access to +# libvirtd. The uid number is irrelevant, so we use dynamic allocation +# described at the above link. +getent group libvirt >/dev/null || groupadd -r libvirt + %endif + %endif + +exit 0 + %post daemon %if %{with_systemd} @@ -1939,6 +1949,7 @@ exit 0 %if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 6 %{_datadir}/polkit-1/actions/org.libvirt.unix.policy %{_datadir}/polkit-1/actions/org.libvirt.api.policy +%{_datadir}/polkit-1/rules.d/50-libvirt.rules %else %{_datadir}/PolicyKit/policy/org.libvirt.unix.policy %endif --