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Hello Thorsten, On Mon, 25 May 2009 11:09:41 +0200, Thorsten Schulz wrote: > Hi, > this relates to a closed bug report 525622, which, being a novice, > couldn't reply directly to. Done the needed changes now. > > Please read /usr/share/doc/wicd/NEWS.Debian to read what you need to do. > > I'm preparing a release which uses debconf to manage wicd-allowed users. > > You are talking about a different issue. The netdev-group-configuration > is about who can *access* the wicd-daemon with wicd-client via dbus. > (Though having that done by debconf would be much appreciated!) That will be in -6 :) > Now Carlos' and my problem is, that by > > <busconfig> > <policy user="root"> > <allow own="org.wicd.daemon"/> > <allow send_destination="org.wicd.daemon"/> > <allow send_interface="org.wicd.daemon"/> > </policy> > <policy at_console="true"> > <deny own="org.wicd.daemon"/> > <allow send_destination="org.wicd.daemon"/> > <allow send_interface="org.wicd.daemon"/> > </policy> > [..] > > denying to own the service name from console prompts means, even as root > I cannot start the wicd-daemon via > > Debian:~# /etc/init.d/wicd start I can't reproduce this, sorry: $ sudo /etc/init.d/wicd stop Stopping Network connection manager: wicd. $ su - Password: # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) # /etc/init.d/wicd start Starting Network connection manager: wicd. # grep -e root -e netdev /etc/group root:x:0: netdev:x:107:neo,roberto # > Commenting out the part tag <policy at_console="true"> ... </policy> > solves the problem for me. I can't really see this one as a bug. Could you please provide some more info on your "root" user? Is it uid(0) gid(0), as it should be? > I haven't tried and I don't know of a more proper way to start the service > than via console. Thank you for bugreporting, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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