https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872166
When the login session doesn't have an ssh -X type display agent in
order for libvirtd to run the polkit session authentication, attempts
to run 'virsh -c qemu:///system list' from an unauthorized user (or one
that isn't part of the libvirt /etc/group) will fail with the following
error from libvirtd:
error: authentication unavailable: no polkit agent available to
authenticate action 'org.libvirt.unix.manage'
In order to handle the local authentication, we will use the new
virPolkitAgentCreate API in order to create a text based authentication
agent for our non readonly session to authenticate with.
The new code will execute in a loop allowing 5 failures to authenticate
before failing out.
With this patch in place, the following occurs:
$ virsh -c qemu:///system list
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.libvirt.unix.manage ===
System policy prevents management of local virtualized systems
Authenticating as: Some User (SUser)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
Id Name State
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1 somedomain running
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