Re: netmanager problems with ubuntu 8.04

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Eric S. Johansson <esj harvee org> wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
>> Looks like there might be Debian-style D-Bus permission issues with the
>> nm-dhcp.action callout's dbus config files disallowing it from sending
>> NetworkManager the returned DHCP configuration.
>>
>> What's the contents of your /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-dhcp-client.conf
>> file?
>
> <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
>  "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
>  "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd";>
> <busconfig>
>         <policy user="root">
>                 <allow own="org.freedesktop.nm_dhcp_client"/>
>                <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.nm_dhcp_client"/>
>         </policy>
>         <policy context="default">
>                 <deny own="org.freedesktop.nm_dhcp_client"/>
>                <deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.nm_dhcp_client"/>
>         </policy>
> </busconfig>
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In the short-term set the two deny's at the bottom to permit.   It
will get DHCP working and maybe Dan or someone can help us figure out
what the proper permissions are.

So far I have tried allowing console and netdev to own it with no luck.