[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] Add capability for text based polkit authentication for virsh

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872166 As an alternative to commit id 'e94979e90' which allows polkit authentication by adding users to the 'libvirt' group, add the ability to start and utilize a text based authentication agent for virsh. At the very least patch 1 will suffice part of the issue listed in the bz - the opaque error message related to "some agent". For patch 2, it was far easier to utilize what polkit provides in pkttyagent and pkcheck utilities, than adding some code which requires POLKIT_AGENT_I_KNOW_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE being #defined for compilation. I chose 'pkauth' to mean polkit authentication - figured it was a workable shorthand, but if there's better suggestions those can be considered. John Ferlan (3): polkit: Adjust message when action-id isn't found util: Introduce API's for Polkit text authentication virsh: Add support for text based polkit authentication src/libvirt_private.syms | 3 ++ src/util/virpolkit.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- src/util/virpolkit.h | 7 ++++ tests/virpolkittest.c | 3 +- tools/virsh.c | 22 ++++++++-- tools/virsh.h | 2 + tools/virsh.pod | 10 +++++ tools/vsh.h | 1 + 8 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0