Re: troubles starting virt-manager as a user

2020-05-26 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-05-26 15:22, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-27 03:47, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Normally when I start virt-mamager, I get a root password prompt from xfce-polkit. Don't forget to add the user to the libvirt group in /etc/group.  You won't get a password prompt if you do that. :-)

Re: troubles starting virt-manager as a user

2020-05-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-27 03:47, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Normally when I start virt-mamager, I get a root password > prompt from xfce-polkit.  Don't forget to add the user to the libvirt group in /etc/group.  You won't get a password prompt if you do that. -- The key to getting good answers is to as

Re: troubles starting virt-manager as a user

2020-05-26 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-05-26 13:24, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/26/20 1:18 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I can not log out at the moment.  Too many things going on. On 2020-05-26 12:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: The root user doesn't have permission to access your display.  You could use xhost to allow it if you w

Re: troubles starting virt-manager as a user

2020-05-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/26/20 1:18 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I can not log out at the moment.  Too many things going on. On 2020-05-26 12:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: The root user doesn't have permission to access your display.  You could use xhost to allow it if you want. An example? Try "xhost +si:local

Re: troubles starting virt-manager as a user

2020-05-26 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
I can not log out at the moment. Too many things going on. On 2020-05-26 12:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: The root user doesn't have permission to access your display.  You could use xhost to allow it if you want. An example? ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: troubles starting virt-manager as a user

2020-05-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/26/20 12:47 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Normally when I start virt-mamager, I get a root password prompt from xfce-polkit.  I accidentally pressed "Deny".  Now it won't start from a user anymore I assume it saves that somewhere, but maybe only in memory. Have you tried restarting t

troubles starting virt-manager as a user

2020-05-26 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, Normally when I start virt-mamager, I get a root password prompt from xfce-polkit. I accidentally pressed "Deny". Now it won't start from a user anymore But I can start it from a shell as user root. But I can not use "su" or "beesu" to start it from a user's account: $ su root -c vi