[Users] oVirt 3.2 beta: Usb redirection and low level usb access

[David Jaša]

Hi,

Gianluca Cecchi píše v St 27. 02. 2013 v 14:14 +0100:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm testing a WIndows XP vm with native usb redirection and oVirt 3.2 beta
> 
> > - when I'm in full screen of my windows XP VM, I plug an usb key into
> > client and I get (from my client OS) the message
> >
> > Privileges are required for low level USB device access (for USB
> > device passthrough
> 
> 
> Could it be that modifying the file
> /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.spice-space.lowlevelusbaccess.policy
> that is part of spice-glib rpm I can bypass this?
> 
> I read about it in RHE 6.4 release notes, but I didn't find mention in
> the docs on how to change it...
> 
> Currently on my fedora 17 client the file contains what below; how is
> it supposed to be changed?

To allow redirection without any prompts to user that is currently
logged in to local session.

David

> 
> Thanks
> Gianluca
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
>           "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
>           "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1.0/policyconfig.dtd">
> <policyconfig>
> 
>   <vendor>The Spice Project</vendor>
>   <vendor_url>http://spice-space.org/</vendor_url>
>   <icon_name>spice</icon_name>
> 
>   <action id="org.spice-space.lowlevelusbaccess">
>     <description>Low level USB device access</description>
>     <message>Privileges are required for low level USB device access
> (for usb device pass through).</message>
>     <defaults>
>       <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
>       <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
>     </defaults>
>   </action>
> 
> </policyconfig>
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