Re: Gnome virt-manager

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On 05/22/2010 10:41 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700
> Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>
>   
>> When I tried running the virtual machine manager as  a  regular user I 
>> was prompted for the root password.
>>     
> Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the
> /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
> tool, if you are trying to use virt-manager, but
> aren't in a gnome session, you'll need to get that
> running first. (The gnome designers seem to have
> "never call a subroutine when you can talk dbus to
> a bunch of separate daemons instead" as a primary
> design principle :-).
>   

Two things:  There are other PolicyKit agents including one for KDE and
LXDE and sub routines don't cover the functionality PolicyKit does.  If
any desktop environment (or even a Window Manager) doesn't run a
PolicyKit agent by default in Fedora, that is a bug IMO.  

Rahul

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