Hi
On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 18:42 +0000, Bob Ham wrote: > I'm logged in over the network to a Debian machine, trying to run > nmtui > as my user to connect to a wireless network. Unfortunately, I get > errors regarding privileges. > > Firstly nmtui told me "Could not activate connection: Not authorized > to > control networking." I added my user to the netdev group (and logged > out/logged in) but it didn't make a difference. Just to confirm, it does work if you try it as root, right? Also, obviously the profile in question does not have "connection.permissions" restricted to another user. Otherwise, you could even see the profile... > I created a file, > /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/90-nm-netdev.pkla, with this > content: > > [Network Manager authorisation] > Identity=unix-group:netdev > Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*;org.freedesktop.NetworkManage > r.settings.modify.system > ResultAny=yes > ResultInactive=yes > ResultActive=yes > > and the operation still fails but the error message changed to "Could > not activate connection: Insufficient privileges." > > Running `nmcli general permission' as my user gives: > > PERMISSION VAL > UE > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system no > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.global-dns yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics yes > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-connectivity-check yes > if you enable level=TRACE logging, NM should log something like <trace> [1578676939.6824] auth: call[19370]: CheckAuthorization(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control), subject=unix-process[pid=1353025, uid=1000, start=16774342] <trace> [1578676939.6994] auth: call[19370]: completed: authorized=1, challenge=0 does it? What does it say? > > Can anyone tell me what I have to do to authorise nmtui to make wifi > connections? I don't know, it sounds right. What version of NM is this? best, Thomas
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