On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 09:05:02PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
The virsh commands has long forced the connection to be read-only if
running
as non-root. This is bogus because it is perfectly capable of authenticating
full read-write connections as non-root since we gained kerberos/policykit
support. The user can always use the explicit --readonly flag if they only
want a read only connection
Dan.
Index: src/virsh.c
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RCS file: /data/cvs/libvirt/src/virsh.c,v
retrieving revision 1.135
diff -r1.135 virsh.c
6048,6054d6047
< #ifndef __MINGW32__
< /* Force a non-root, Xen connection to readonly */
< if ((ctl->name == NULL ||
< !strcasecmp(ctl->name, "xen")) && ctl->uid != 0)
< ctl->readonly = 1;
< #endif
Yes. I was tempted to just remove this bogosity before but instead I
just patched it out for Windows.
Rich.
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