Re: dbus / nm-applet

[Daniel Gryniewicz <dang fprintf net>]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 09:52 +0100, Tor Krill wrote:
> Quoting Jon Bradley <weatchu gmail com>:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> > Still having problems with dbus-daemon, even after restart. nm-applet gives
> > this to the console/xterm:
> >
> > ----snip---
> > ** (nm-applet:26016): WARNING **: <WARNING> (): nmwa_dbus_init() could not
> > acquire its service. dbus_bus_acquire() says: 'Connection ":1.2" is not
> > allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to
> > security policies in the configuration file'
> > ----snip---
> 
> what distribution do you run? I had similar problems with this. And all boiled
> down to my distribution not having pam_console support. Making the policy
> at_console="true" fail.
> 
> Look at thel gnome/applet/nm-applet.conf which contains the permissions for
> d-bus access to nm-applet.
> 

In gentoo, pam_console support is optional.  I don't have it enabled but
you can do this:

touch /var/run/console/$USER

This works fine for a single-user box, such as a laptop.  If you have
multiple users (either simultaneously or sequentially), you're better
off with pam_console.

Daniel