If you are sitting in front of a physical machine and logged in as a regular user, you can connect to the system libvirtd instance by providing a root password to policykit. This is how most virt-manager users talk to libvirt. However, if you are launching virt-manager over ssh -X, or over VNC started from say /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, our policykit policy rejects the user outright, providing no option to provide the root password. This is confusing to users and doesn't seem to serve much point. Change the policy to allow inactive (VNC) and non-local (SSH, VNC) to provide root credentials for accessing system libvirtd. We use auth_admin rather than auth_admin_keep so that credentials aren't cached at all, and every subsequent reconnection to libvirt requires auth. Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625115 Similar change to PackageKit policy: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528511 --- daemon/libvirtd.policy-0 | 4 ++-- daemon/libvirtd.policy-1 | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/daemon/libvirtd.policy-0 b/daemon/libvirtd.policy-0 index b6da946..5d6845c 100644 --- a/daemon/libvirtd.policy-0 +++ b/daemon/libvirtd.policy-0 @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ file are instantly applied. <defaults> <!-- Only a program in the active host session can use libvirt in read-write mode for management, and we require user password --> - <allow_any>no</allow_any> - <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> + <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> + <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep_session</allow_active> </defaults> </action> diff --git a/daemon/libvirtd.policy-1 b/daemon/libvirtd.policy-1 index 6fa3a5e..c2bec1f 100644 --- a/daemon/libvirtd.policy-1 +++ b/daemon/libvirtd.policy-1 @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ file are instantly applied. <defaults> <!-- Only a program in the active host session can use libvirt in read-write mode for management, and we require user password --> - <allow_any>no</allow_any> - <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> + <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> + <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> </defaults> </action> -- 1.7.7.5