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Utini

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Registered: 2015-09-28

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My way of non-root for QEMU / virtmanager correct?

Hey there, I would want to allow two users on the laptop to run QEMU without the need of entering the root password. I would add those two users to the group "mylibvirt". But I only want them to be able to run QEMU / Virtmanager without root pw, nothing else.

Is this the correct way?

/* Allow members of the wheel group to execute the defined actions 
 * without password authentication, similar to "sudo NOPASSWD:"
 */
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if ((action.id == "org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted" ||
	 action.id == "org.libvirt.unix.manage") &&
        subject.isInGroup("mylibvirt"))
    {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

Thanks !

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