[libvirt] [PATCH] document authentication with PolicyKit-1

Gerd v. Egidy lists at egidy.de
Thu Oct 7 07:45:28 UTC 2010


> >> I solved it and thought updating the documentation for PolicyKit 1
> >> would be
> >> nice. Patch attached.
> > 
> > Is this patch still relevant against the latest sources? If so, would
> > you mind resending it, so we can get it into 0.8.5?
> 
> Kind of thinking we may have fixed this already.  The PolicyKit
> documentation has recently been updated, to reflect the new(er) way of
> doing things with it:
> 
>    http://libvirt.org/auth.html#ACL_server_polkit
>
> and
> 
>    http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHPolicyKitSetup

These pages together go more into detail and offer more examples than my patch 
did. 
 
> Just checked Gerd's patch, and the PolicyKit-0 stuff seems useful, as
> well as the example (which I haven't tested).

The PolicyKit-0 stuff was in there before, I just kept it and added 
PolicyKit-1. I don't think we need the PolicyKit-0 documentation anymore, 
everyone using current libvirt is most probably also using PolicyKit-1.

Kind regards,

Gerd

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