On 01/15/2016 07:44 PM, Nate Pearlstein wrote:
> I’ve been trying to get policykit to automatically authorize virt-manager.
>
> This was working fine with fedora 21, but with fedora 23 it doesn’t seem to work. For both I’ve been using the mate desktop.
>
> With f21 I had the following in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/caprica.libvirt.pkla
>
> [Allow user libvirt management permissions]
> Identity=unix-user:user
> Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage
> ResultAny=yes
> ResultInactive=yes
> ResultActive=yes
>
>
That format hasn't worked for quite a while, due to a polkit change.
> I tried the above with f23 and no luck. I’ve since tried
>
> /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/80-libvirt.rules
>
> polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
> if (action.id == "org.libvirt.unix.manage" && subject.local && subject.active && subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {
> return polkit.Result.YES;
> }
> });
>
At a glance that looks like it should work, but I didn't confirm the syntax.
However on fedora 22+ the recommended way to do this is to add yourself to the
'libvirt' group:
http://blog.wikichoon.com/2016/01/polkit-password-less-access-for-libvirt.html
- Cole
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