On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 03:41:22PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > If you compile a client --without-polkit, and connect to a URI that needs > polkit auth, the connection will fail with: > > $ ./tools/virsh --connect qemu+ssh://crobinso@machine/system > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor > error: authentication failed: unsupported authentication type 2 > > This is because the client side portion of the polkit handling is > compiled out. However, nothing polkit specific is actually required > of the client. > > Fix that error by unconditionally compiling the basic polkit client > handling. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635529 > --- > Granted, if polkit needs to do any interaction at all, and you are > connecting to a remote machine, then things are going to fail anyways > with a 'missing agent' error. But if you're user is in the 'libvirt' > group polkit doesn't need to auth it should all work. > > > src/remote/remote_driver.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- > 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) ACK Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list