Access to libvirt via Virt-Manager (non-root)

Access to anything using root passwords is a Bad Thing(tm), so Policy-Kit comes to the rescue.  Having never used Policy-Kit (polkit-d), it was always something disabled in order to limit the number of extraneous processes running on a server/hypervisor system. However, in this case, it comes in handy. Create: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-libvirt-remote-access.pkla [libvirt Management Access] Identity=unix-group:libvirt Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage

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US Postage Stamps vs E-Mail

ХудожникElectronic Mail (e-mail) was brought in to the corporate world in the early 1990’s and, at that time, it was considered a “secondary” service to most employers.  A very short time later, by the mid-1990’s, that “secondary” service was viewed by those same people as “company critical”.  Despite the constant warnings by the tech world

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