Re: [libvirt-users] UserID Permissions: Virtual Machine Manager vs virsh and Python
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 02:36:02PM -0600, David Ashley wrote:
I have added a user to the libvirt group on my CentOS 7.2 server and
that user can successfully access the Virtual Machine Manager without
authenticating as expected. This allows the user to perform all
functions in the VMS as if they were root. This is acceptable as this is
a private server with no outside access so security is not a real issue.
But when that same user tries to perform functions with virsh or using a
Python script that uses the libvirt module, the connection is just
read-only.
Why are the permissions different for these environments and what must I
do to give the user r/w access in virsh or the Python script?
I'm guessing (really just guessing), that virt-manager tries connecting
to qemu:///system, but you are connecting to your default uri which is
qemu:///session for non-root users. You can try connecting to
qemu:///system and that should work. If you don't want to modify the
code, you can change the default uri in ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf
or in environment variable LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI (hand-typed, please
re-check).
Martin
David Ashley
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