diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f294dbfbc1..d9a012e1de 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Mar 11 10:21:53 EDT 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+
+	* src/virsh.c: Don't force connection to readonly as non-root
+	since with auth support we can have full connections.
+
 Tue Mar 11 10:17:53 EDT 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
 
 	* qemud/qemud.c: Don't run cleanup code when parent process is
diff --git a/src/virsh.c b/src/virsh.c
index c6bac127b7..cf0f12c50e 100644
--- a/src/virsh.c
+++ b/src/virsh.c
@@ -6045,13 +6045,6 @@ vshInit(vshControl * ctl)
     /* set up the library error handler */
     virSetErrorFunc(NULL, virshErrorHandler);
 
-#ifndef __MINGW32__
-    /* Force a non-root, Xen connection to readonly */
-    if ((ctl->name == NULL ||
-         !strcasecmp(ctl->name, "xen")) && ctl->uid != 0)
-         ctl->readonly = 1;
-#endif
-
     ctl->conn = virConnectOpenAuth(ctl->name,
                                    virConnectAuthPtrDefault,
                                    ctl->readonly ? VIR_CONNECT_RO : 0);