nm-connection-editor working only as root

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02 gmail com>]

Dear All,

I just upgraded to version 0.9 of network manager and the
nm-connection-editor (running Debian). Since the upgrade:


a) None of my formerly defined connections are visible anymore.

b) I cannot add or edit connections as a regular user. If I try to add,
all boxes are greyed out.


c) Connections that, as root, I define to be usable to all users without
requiring a password still ask me for a password.


The weird thing is that, if I reinstall the previous version of the Debian
package that contains nm-connection-editor (network-manager-gnome 0.8.1),
then the old connections are visible and I can edit them. (But then the
whole thing does not work because of several incompatibilities).


I've tried installing and reinstalling, and rebooting, to no avail.


I think that nm-connection-editor (see, e.g.,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694334#c7) should work for
regular users. I also tried to add a new group and include an entry in
/etc/polkit-1, as commented in

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager#Set_up_PolicyKit_permissions

but it has not helped.


And I have not been able to locate anything about changes in permissions,
etc, in the docs.




What can I do to recover all of my formerly defined connections and
editing by non-root users?


Best,


R.

-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain

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