[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#497643: Bug#497643: nm-applet not displayed after GNOME installation from scratch

[Michael Biebl]

severity 497643 wishlist
tags 497643 wontfix
thanks

Ralph Plawetzki wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.6-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear package maintainer,
> 
> I recently made a lenny installation from scratch using the
> cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot i386 CD
> Binary-1 20080825-11:06].
> I installed GNOME via 'aptitude install gnome'. Everything was fine
> exept that the nm-applet was not displayed. Google said, that the user
> has to be in group netdev. After I added my user to netdev, nm-applet
> showed up and worked fine.
> 
> To me it seems, that the postinst-script of network-manager 0.6.6-2
> lacks a function for adding users to netdev.
> 

Adding users automatically to group netdev is not going to happen, sorry.

If you want a more automatic, dynamic way of granting access to NM,
please install consolekit.
See http://bugs.debian.org/496723 for more details.

Cheers,
Michael
-- 
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