Bug 984289

Summary:	virsh is unusable from ssh or non-graphical environment under default polkit setup
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Gibson <dgibson>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	berrange, clalancette, crobinso, itamar, jforbes, jyang, laine, libvirt-maint, veillard, virt-maint
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Description David Gibson 2013-07-14 13:58:05 UTC

Description of problem:

The default configuration of authentication between polkit and libvirt makes virsh unusable from an ssh session or text console where it does not have access to a desktop environment's polkit agent.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libvirt-client-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in on a text console, or ssh to localhost
2. virsh -c qemu:///system list

Actual results:

$ virsh -c qemu:///system list
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: no valid connection
error: authentication failed: polkit: polkit\56retains_authorization_after_challenge=1
Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available.

Expected results:

Some means of authenticating to allow virsh to continue.

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2013-07-15 20:03:58 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 872166 ***