Bug 304371

Summary:	Connecting to remote hypervisors requires root.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Fabian Deutsch <fabian.deutsch>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7	CC:	crobinso, hbrock
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Description Fabian Deutsch 2007-09-25 01:01:45 UTC

Description of problem:
virt-manager is a symlink to consolehelper, so even connecting to remote URIs
requires root.
This should not be, beacause you might just want to connect to some remote
machine, so just using virt-manager as some client, that shall not require local
root privileges.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
current f 7 packages.

How reproducible:
Run "virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://usr@somehost:22/system" you get a prompt to
enter your root password.

Steps to Reproduce:
See above.
  
Actual results:
You need to enter a root password.

Expected results:
virt-manager connects to the remote host, just asking for your remote password
via ssh.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2007-09-27 02:56:58 UTC

We need to use console helper so that when managing a local hypervisor is
possible for virt-manager to create new guests. To allow virt-manager to run as
non-root we need to make sure we can still fully manage local guests. This
requires introduction of new APIs in libvirt & integration with PolicyKit. This
is work in progress. In the meantime you can simply hit the 'Run unprivileged'
button if you want to run non-root.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2008-05-08 14:28:20 UTC

Hi, virt-manager PolicyKit integration has been in F8 for a few months. With a
proper PolicyKit.conf, regular users will be able to connect to remote
hypervisors no problem. This won't be backported to Fedora 7 though, since it is
nearly end of life. 

I'm closing this bug as CURRENTRELEASE.