Bug#378284: SPAM: 0.2: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#378284: kwlan: doesn't show up as unprivileged user

[Mark Purcell]

tags 378284 upstream wontfix
thanks

On Saturday 15 July 2006 01:59, Mau wrote:
> if I run kwlan as root everything works as expected.

Mau,

Thanks for your report..

You are correct.

From the README:

Important for users using sudo (for example Kubuntu users)
----------------------------------------------------------

Please configure kwlan using --enable-sudo. This ensures that kwlan uses sudo 
to do tasks that need priviledged mode.

So I would suggest that kwlan is setup to need sudo privs, or root privs.

Perhaps some sort of a warning message would be better than no indication at 
all.

So for the short term I would suggest you use sudo and in the longer term I'll 
pass this upstream and see what we can do..

I'll leave this bug open (tagged wontfix) so others can find it..

Mark

PS I'm uploading the new version (0.5.2) to Debian today.. Although it still 
has this problem.