Re: [libvirt] Proposed libguestfs API for implementing libvirt virConnectOpenAuth

On 10/13/2012 05:31 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Does libvirt (or policy kit?) provide any mechanism for caching these > credentials within the same process, so that we don't have to provide > the same creds back to libvirt for multiple connections? > Yeah, that's the 'keep' in 'auth_admin_keep' in libvirt's policykit rules: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=daemon/libvirtd.policy.in But libvirt only enables it for local, active sessions, which doesn't include SSH logins for example. libvirt should s/auth_admin/auth_admin_keep/g