On running gui applications as root

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/17/2015 06:25 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 17/11/15 18:11, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 11/17/2015 05:55 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
>>> My impression is that by default in fedora, virt-manager runs as
>>> non-root. I guess it might ask for the root password in order to
>>> manage the libvirtd that runs as privileged mode, but even in that
>>> case the user interface would run as your normal user.
>>
>> Sure, but even that is a UI regression: applications which ask for
>> the root password discourage long root passwords and train people
>> to type the root password whenever it's asked for.  I should not
>> even need to know the root password.
> 
> Well you'll be pleased to know then that virt-manager doesn't normally 
> ask for the root password. If you're in the libvirt group then I don't 
> think it will ask at all, otherwise if you're an administrative user 
> then it will ask for your password.

OK, fair enough.  That must be more recent than the host system I use.


Andrew.