Dan Williams skrev:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:34 +0100, Bjørge Solli wrote:
>   
>> See I was a bit unclear. NM may take the network down as long as it 
>> takes it up again. I have network login and if no network is available 
>> noone can log in.
>>
>> The strange thing is that I cannot even log in as root (not in gdm nor 
>> in text console), I had to reboot into runlevel 1 to do a chkconfig 
>> NetworkManager off! I really don't understand why root was denied as 
>> network is not needed for that.
>>     
>
> Until the system settings stuff is available (which is what I'm working
> on right now) for Fedora 8 and rawhide, somebody must log so that the
> applet is available to provide NetworkManager with the connections that
> NM is allowed to activate.  Essentially, something must provide the
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings D-Bus service, and the only thing
> that currently does that is nm-applet or knetworkmanager, which only run
> when somebody logs in.
>   
Ok. Any timeline for the settings stuff? Untill you have that ready I 
guess using ldap and network home disk (cifs) won't work after starting NM.

Do you also have an idea as to why starting NM prevents root from 
logging in?

Bjørge
- while trying to set up a centrally managed linux-laptop system for 
University of Bergen, Norway.
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