Re: netmanager problems with ubuntu 8.04

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 19:17 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> 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.

It just needs permissions to talk to NM, and both should be running as
root...  what were the permissions debian-based distros used for the old
dhclient-script when it was sending options to dhcdbd?  That might give
some clue as to what to do.

dan