Re: nm-connection-editor working only as root

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02 gmail com>]

On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:30:08 +0100,Michael Biebl <biebl debian org> wrote:
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> Am 06.11.2011 14:39, schrieb Ramon Diaz-Uriarte:

> > 
> > Yes, I do have polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 in
> > /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/

> ...

> > 
> > No, I never see a PolicyKit authentication dialog. However, in case it
> > matters, I do have the daemon running:
> > 
> > 
> > ramon@Bufo:~$ ps -A -f | grep polkit
> > root      1487     1  0 12:00 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
> > 

> That's your problem, I guess. You not only need polkitd daemon running,
> but you also need a "PolicyKit authentication agent" in your user
> session, which is responsible for show the authentication dialogs.
> Such a service is e.g. provided by gnome-shell (if you use GNOME 3), by
> kdebase-workspace (if you use KDE) or
> polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 (from policykit-1-gnome).

> The policykit-1-gnome package uses an xdg autostart file. Most likely
> your xmonad WM does not read that autostart files, so you need to start
> /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
> manually.



Aha! I see. I tried and if I do start it manually (or add it to my
.xinitrc) then everything works with the settings:

  <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
  <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>


Thanks,


R.



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