On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:04:42AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > Many users, who admin their own machines, want to be able to access > system libvirtd via tools like virt-manager without having to enter > a root password. Just google 'virt-manager without password' and > you'll find many hits. I've read at least 5 blog posts over the years > describing slightly different ways of achieving this goal. > > Let's finally add official support for this. > > Install a polkit-1 rules file granting password-less auth for any user > in the new 'libvirtadm' group. Create the group on RPM install Debian calls the group 'libvirt', just in case we want to be consistent. libvirtadm doesn't sound like a perfect match either since starting/stopping machines often isn't considered "administration" by those users who look for solutions to the problem you describe above. But I won't nitpick here, we can trivially patch this downstream. Cheers, -- Guido -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list