On 3/22/25 8:19 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:


On Friday, March 21st, 2025 at 20:12, toddandmargo via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

Hi All,

Fedora 41
virt-manager-5.0.0-1.fc41.noarch

When I start virt-manager, it wants the password for the user's account that I initially created during the install of FC41.

How do I get it to ask for the root's password instead?

Many thanks,
-T

On 3/21/25 12:24 PM, Alex Gurenko wrote:
> Do you need it to ask for a root password? Maybe just add your user to the libvirt group with usermod -a -G libvirt <username> ?
 >
 > ---
 > Best regards, Alex

Hi Alex,

Hmmmm.  What group "libvert"?

# grep -i libvert /etc/group
<nothing>

So I manually added the group

# groupadd -r libvert

And now I get

# grep -i libvert /etc/group
libvert:x:965:

But

# usermod -a -G libvirt root

does not add root or any other the other four users I added
to the group

This is the only one you actually spelled correctly. But you're supposed to be adding your user, not root to the group.

# grep -i libvert /etc/group
libvert:x:965:

What am I missing?  Is it time for "vi"?

Try doing that again with the correct group name.

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