Am 08.05.2012 21:52, schrieb Joey Hess: > Package: network-manager-gnome > Version: 0.9.4.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Now nm wants the root password to be entered to ensure the user is allowed > to change the global system networking when connecting to a new wifi > network. Perhaps there are actual multiuser systems where this makes > sense, but on the typical laptop it means I have to train the user in a > second password. > > This is really bad if using sudo. d-i can set up a system with sudo and > no root password (and with gksu configured to use sudo). nm still > prompts for a root password on such a system, which is impossible. I > have filed a separate bug on policykit about this problem. > > FWIW, I am using xfce. I have not used gnome recently so don't know if > it somehow avoids this problem. I have xfce configured to run the gnome > password manager and other services, and I find lots of results > searching the web for "network manager root password", so my suspicion is > it does affect gnome. I have confirmed this behavior on two laptops, > one freshly installed. > > The only GUI workaround I can find is to edit the connection, and > uncheck "Available to all users"[1]. But, this can only be done to > existing connections. So logging into a new wifi network without the > root password requires a very clumsy process of manually adding a > connection for it.
This is basically a duplicate of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642136 > I found another workaround here: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager > Make > /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla > containing: > > [nm-applet] > Identity=unix-group:netdev > Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.* > ResultAny=yes > ResultInactive=no > ResultActive=yes > > Now all users in netdev (like default desktop user) are not asked for > the password. > See my comment at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642136#97 Cheers, Michael
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