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Description of problem: When doing password based authentication to a remote libvirtd node via SSH, openssh-askpass is required to be installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.7-6.fc15.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run virt-manager 2. Add a connection Qemu/KVM+SSH 3. Try connecting to node Actual results: cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password). : Connection reset by peer Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1055, in _try_open None], flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 107, in openAuth if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirtError: cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password). : Connection reset by peer Expected results: User is prompted for password. Additional info: Installation of openssh-askpass solves this issue.
virt-manager does not strictly require installing ssh-askpass to function, it's only one use case that requires it. Most users infact don't use remote connections whatsoever, so having a hard requirement on askpass will do them a disservice. If RPM had a 'suggests' or similar mechanism we would use that. Closing as NOTABUG