On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:04:42AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
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 'libvirtadm' group. Create the group on RPM install
Debian calls the group 'libvirt', just in case we want to be consistent. libvirtadm doesn't sound like a perfect match either since starting/stopping machines often isn't considered "administration" by those users who look for solutions to the problem you describe above. But I won't nitpick here, we can trivially patch this downstream. Cheers, -- Guido