[libvirt] [PATCH] Allow polkit auth for VNC and SSH users

2012-02-07 Thread Cole Robinson
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

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Allow polkit auth for VNC and SSH users

2012-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/07/2012 09:59 AM, Cole Robinson wrote: 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

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Allow polkit auth for VNC and SSH users

2012-02-07 Thread Cole Robinson
On 02/07/2012 12:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 02/07/2012 09:59 AM, Cole Robinson wrote: 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