On 04/28/2015 05:51 PM, 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 'libvirt' group. Create the group on RPM install
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957300 --- daemon/50-libvirt.rules | 9 +++++++++
Let's just name it daemon/libvirt.rules in git, and only rename it as part of installation (to make it a bit more obvious that someone could rename it to something other than 50- if they want a different priority).
daemon/Makefile.am | 13 +++++++++++++ libvirt.spec.in | 15 +++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 daemon/50-libvirt.rules
-- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org