Re: NetworkManager-0.6.4 and dhcp-3.0.4

[Thorsten Kolb <thorsten_kolb urz uni-hd de>]

Thank you,

I got It running as user. The strange thing is that If I run it as user I can 
not direktly click on the wlan-list, I have to type my wlan-date manually in. 
Is Root this does not happen. 
Any Idea hov I can solve this?

Thorsten





>On Monday, 15. January 2007 15:24, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:00 +0100, Thorsten Kolb wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am trying now for several weeks to get networkmanager/knetworkmanager
> > running.
> > This day I had sucess, with NetworkManager-0.6.4 and knetworkmanager-0.1.
> > The Problam I had all the time was that the poore unpatched dhcp-3.0.4
> > which comes with my distro (slackware-11.0) does not work with
> > NetworkManager nor the poore dhcp-3.0.4 which I compiled for myself did
> > the trick. So I took some patches from a gentooo-overlay and patched dhcp
> > for my self, now it works.
> >
> > Maybe you can say me which ones are nessesary?!
> > This are all I used:
> >
> > dhcp-3.0-fix-perms.patch
> > dhcp-3.0-paranoia.patch
> >
> >
> > dhcp-3.0.2-dhclient-script-dbus-dhcdbd.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.2-extended_option_environment.patch
>
> ^^^ I think these two are likely the only ones necessary for the dbus
> support.
>
> Dan
>
> > dhcp-3.0.3-no_isc_blurb.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.3-libdst.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.3-dhclient-ntp.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.2-gmake.patch
> >
> >
> > So for the future it would be good that you write the need for a patched
> > dhcp somewhere on your Homepage :-)
> >
> > Just one Question.
> > How can I use knetworkmanager as a non-root user? What must I change
> > in /etc/dbus.1/system.d/knetworkmanager?
>
> You should be.  Slackware has lagged somewhat with D-Bus though.  The
> way other distributions, for example Fedora, deal with the non-root user
> issue is through a special PAM module called pam_console.  Essentially,
> if the user is sitting in front of the machine, they are allowed to
> configure the network.  Then, your /etc/dbus-1/system.d/knetworkmanager
> would have the following bits somewhere:
>
>         <policy at_console="true">
>                 <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>
>
>                 <allow
> send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/> <allow
> send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/> </policy>
>
> This _only_ works if you have pam_console set up.  Debian-based
> distributions do this through groups.  There, you need to be in the
> 'netdev' group and replace the above at_console="true" with
> group="netdev".
>
> I really don't know how slackware does the D-Bus authorization bits, but
> it really should be doing them with either groups (like Debian) or
> pam_console (like Fedora and SUSE).  You'll have to figure out which
> one, since it appears that nobody has already figured that out for
> slackware.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan

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