On 11/17/2015 06:25 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 17/11/15 18:11, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 11/17/2015 05:55 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: >>> My impression is that by default in fedora, virt-manager runs as >>> non-root. I guess it might ask for the root password in order to >>> manage the libvirtd that runs as privileged mode, but even in that >>> case the user interface would run as your normal user. >> >> Sure, but even that is a UI regression: applications which ask for >> the root password discourage long root passwords and train people >> to type the root password whenever it's asked for. I should not >> even need to know the root password. > > Well you'll be pleased to know then that virt-manager doesn't normally > ask for the root password. If you're in the libvirt group then I don't > think it will ask at all, otherwise if you're an administrative user > then it will ask for your password. OK, fair enough. That must be more recent than the host system I use. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
