Re: [PATCH] polkit: Allow libvirt group access to libvirtd ro socket

On 12/1/20 2:17 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 05:28:16PM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote: >> As a normal user, 'virsh connect qemu:///system' and >> 'virsh connect --readonly qemu:///system' will prompt for root password. >> If the user is added to the libvirt group, only >> 'virsh connect --readonly qemu:///system' will prompt for root password. > > This doesn't make sense - the readonly case should never prompt for > a password, since libvirtd.polkit.in grants that permission out of > the box. I thought something smelled a bit fishy. I meant to annotate the patch with "It is possible I have a broader polkit config issue", but forgot before sending it last night. And indeed after looking again today with fresh eyes I see the problem is in our polkit-default-privs package -> downstream bug. Ignore this patch.