On 05/23/2010 05:34 AM, KC8LDO wrote: > Paolo; > > You have a couple of choices here. I'm not a Policykit expert but the below > two methods should work. > > 1. At the command line run [user@system]su -c "virtmanager". Where the > "[user@system]" is the command line prompt for your system and "virtmanager" > is the exact name for the virtmanager application on your system. You should > get a request for a root password. Then it should work. If you have any > questions about what "su" does then just type "man su" at the terminal > window prompt without the double quote marks. That should bring up a page > telling what "su" does and the various optional setting. > > 2. You can go to the "Main Menu" selection under the "System->Preferences" > selection. Clicking on the "Main menu" item starts the menu editor. Locate > the menu selection for the virtmanager, should be Application->System, and > right click on it to bring up a window with one of the options being the > "Preferences" selection then click on it. Change the command line to the > above, without the prompt of course. Then change the "Type" setting to > "Application in Terminal". Close everything then quit the menu editor. Now > when you click on the virtmanager selection you should get a popup terminal > window with a prompt for the root password. > > I've had to do this with several things to work around not being asked for a > root password for several system settings and services. I know its not the > best way but at least it should work. > > Regards; > > Lee > > "There are morons in every line of work. > Some just get paid more for their stupidity ". > > Lee, thanks for the info, but I don't have an issue with the way it works. If libvirtd is running everything works the way it should. I get prompted for a root password. Someone else (overkill) was having the issue with it never prompting for password and wondering how to get it to work Paolo -- 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
