Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] remote: Don't reject remote polkit if client lacks support

If you compile a client --without-polkit, and connect to a URI that needs polkit auth, the connection will fail with: $ ./tools/virsh --connect qemu+ssh://crobinso@machine/system error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: authentication failed: unsupported authentication type 2 This is because the client side portion of the polkit handling is compiled out. However, nothing polkit specific is actually required of the client. Fix that error by unconditionally compiling the basic polkit client handling. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635529 --- Granted, if polkit needs to do any interaction at all, and you are connecting to a remote machine, then things are going to fail anyways with a 'missing agent' error. But if you're user is in the 'libvirt' group polkit doesn't need to auth it should all work. src/remote/remote_driver.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)