On 12/1/20 5:15 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 4:23 PM Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/1/20 2:17 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 05:28:16PM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
As a normal user, 'virsh connect qemu:///system' and
'virsh connect --readonly qemu:///system' will prompt for root password.
If the user is added to the libvirt group, only
'virsh connect --readonly qemu:///system' will prompt for root password.
This doesn't make sense - the readonly case should never prompt for
a password, since libvirtd.polkit.in grants that permission out of
the box.
I thought something smelled a bit fishy. I meant to annotate the patch with "It
is possible I have a broader polkit config issue", but forgot before sending it
last night.
And indeed after looking again today with fresh eyes I see the problem is in our
polkit-default-privs package -> downstream bug. Ignore this patch.
Hah, and I didn't catch this because I rip out the default openSUSE
stuff that ruins usability by restricting polkit too much. :)
It has been a long time, but I've tripped over default-privs in the past. This
time it was the difference between "restricted" (default in SLES) and "standard"
(default in openSUSE) rules that got me. See /etc/sysconfig/security.
Regards,
Jim
