On 05/22/2010 10:41 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700 > Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > >> When I tried running the virtual machine manager as a regular user I >> was prompted for the root password. >> > Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the > /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 > tool, if you are trying to use virt-manager, but > aren't in a gnome session, you'll need to get that > running first. (The gnome designers seem to have > "never call a subroutine when you can talk dbus to > a bunch of separate daemons instead" as a primary > design principle :-). > Two things: There are other PolicyKit agents including one for KDE and LXDE and sub routines don't cover the functionality PolicyKit does. If any desktop environment (or even a Window Manager) doesn't run a PolicyKit agent by default in Fedora, that is a bug IMO. Rahul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
