With polkit version 0.106, .rules files are used instead of .pkla files, see http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2012/06/authorization-rules-in-polkit.html for more information. Therefore, please port the file /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/10-vdsm-libvirt-access.pkla to use the new format. If you have any questions, I'm subscribed to this bug to help. Thanks.
Is there no backwards compatibility support for the existing .rules files in 0.106 ? I would have expected some overlap in support for both syntaxes for a couple of releases at least, to minimize the pain inflicted on both sysadmins & developers.
(In reply to comment #1) > Is there no backwards compatibility support for the existing .rules files in > 0.106 ? I would have expected some overlap in support for both syntaxes for > a couple of releases at least, to minimize the pain inflicted on both > sysadmins & developers. There is no backwards compatibility, no. The easiest is to just ship both a .pkla and a .rules file. I guess distributors can choose to include only the relevant file in their RPM (e.g. on F18 and newer you'd include the .rules file, on F17 and earlier you'd include the pkla file).
A fix has been proposed upstream: commit 3c5d4d23572b89bfed443d90163ae5ccddd87e38 Author: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce> Date: Wed Sep 26 09:31:49 2012 -0400 Support for the new polkit rules Bug-Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829884 Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce> Change-Id: I5de52881c60c54cd4874a8801d2705d0681f0824 http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8213/
The new polkit rules file is used since vdsm-4.10.1-1.fc18.