On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:18:58 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > I am sorry to revive an old thread, but I have started to play with > graphical WiFi manager only now :-)
Welcome to the club :) > Well, without having used wicd yet, it is clear to me that you need to > have root privileges in someway, since network interfaces configuration > (and wpasupplicant, in case) requires that. That's handled by the daemon (which indeed runs as root), the interaction via the client runs as a "normal" user, with one exception: > Bug #519915 [1] in part > confirms it, AFAICS that only relates to configuring pre/post-scripts via the client interface. Not that I really understand why the rest of the config works via some d-bus magic but these variables don't, but this behaviour is documented in wicd(8) and is no show-stopper for using the client as non-root. > as well as /usr/share/doc/wicd/README.Debian: Right, non-root users have to be in the netdev group. > OTOH wifi-radar does not have this option and it always need to be > started as root. However, reading /usr/share/doc/wifi-radar/README.gz I > discovered that it seems there is a way to use it with PAM > authentication. I have not tried it yet and indeed it seems a bit too > sophisticated than wicd. Hm, sounds interesting; but the description is really a bit non-trivial ... And configuring WPA manually also doesn't sound very attractive. > I think the major advantage of wifi-radar is the fact that is it way > smaller than wicd, 168kB vs. 2300kB, considering the dependencies as > well (wicd is not yet "compatible" with udhcpc, see bug #520014 [2]). And the wicd daemon+client also use quite a few resources at runtime. > However, considering that wifi-radar does not even start on my FR (bug > #520845 [3]) Works for me (with dhcp3-client instead of udhcp) but it's similarly slow and resource-hungry as wicd ... Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Bj�rn Berge: N.I.B.
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