Re: Trouble with privileges on dev version of NM

[Alex Pyattaev <alex pyattaev gmail com>]

Sorry to bring it up again, 
but I had to go through the whole code of NM to find the root of this problem, 
and it seems that it has nothing to do with NM itself, but rather with 
interaction between NM and wpa-supplicant. Can anyone recall any trouble like 
that in there? My knowlege of WPA supplicant code is very limited, therefore I 
can not really debug this problem....
Thank you, 
Alex.
On Wednesday 15 June 2011 11:32:00 Jos Collin wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> In gentoo the same is replaced by /etc/conf.d/net file. The possibility is
> that the NM conflicts with the network settings stored in your system. You
> can try the same with /etc/conf.d/net
> 
> > 3. Maybe it is relevant that the connections you configure disappear
> > after logout completely...
> 
> There is no such thing. The connections that is created by a user will be
> stored as a user setting and will not be visible to other users. You can
> select "Available to all users" otherwise. The connections created as a
> system setting will be available to all users but can be modified only by
> the root.
> 
> Happy Hacking,
> Jos Collin
> 
> > Well,
> > There are two problems with your proposal:
> > 1. There is no  /etc/networks/interfaces file in gentoo (why would that
> > be?). There is /etc/networks though, and it looked like this:
> > # /etc/networks
> > #
> > # This file describes a number of netname-to-adress
> > # mappings for the TCP/IP subsytem. It is mostly
> > # used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
> > #
> > loopback        127.0.0.0
> > link-local      169.254.0.0
> > But it has no effect on NM whatsoever.
> > 2. It appears to be unable to scan networks only, but if I would supply
> > the ESSID it will connect.
> > 3. Maybe it is relevant that the connections you configure disappear
> > after logout completely...
> > 
> > I think there is some breakage in privileges associated with what NM
> > can and can not do, but I can not find anything...
> > 
> > Alex.
> > 
> > On Wednesday 15 June 2011 10:29:26 you wrote:
> >> > For some reason it does not scan wireless
> >> > networks
> >> 
> >> Please edit /etc/networks/interfaces, comment everything except
> > 
> > the
> > 
> >> loopback network interface and do a #/etc/init.d/network-manager
> > 
> > restart.
> > 
> >> This may solve the problem.
> >> 
> >> > it requires root password to change connection settings.
> >> 
> >> That connection was created using
> > 
> > NetworkManagerSystemSettings and it is
> > 
> >> not a user setting.
> >> 
> >> > Hello!
> >> > I'm testing the new NM DBus API, and for this I have installed git
> >> 
> >> version
> >> 
> >> > of
> >> > NM (19019a8e0be66fc4121a3885392f904025b86231). It seems
> > 
> > to work
> > 
> >> > and compile,
> >> > but there is one issue. For some reason it does not scan wireless
> >> > networks (although it used to in 0.8), and also it requires root
> >> > password to
> >> 
> >> change
> >> 
> >> > connection settings. I'm confused why it would behave this way. Is
> > 
> > there
> > 
> >> any
> >> 
> >> > documentation on how to set up the privileges for NM and nm-
> > 
> > applet?
> > 
> >> Thank you,
> >> 
> >> > Alex.
> >> > _______________________________________________
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> >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
> > 
> > --
> > Alex Pyattaev,
> > Researcher,
> > Tampere University of Technology,
> > Finland
-- 
Alex Pyattaev,
Researcher,
Tampere University of Technology,
Finland