[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#657279: network-manager: Not authorized to control networking

[Chow Loong Jin]

On 24/04/2012 04:07, PJ Weisberg wrote:
> This no longer happens if I use gdm3 as my x-display-manager.  That
> solves the mystery of when it stopped working: the first time I tried
> to change my network settings after dropping Gnome3.
> 
> So this might be a bug in both slim and xdm (both of which I've
> tried), or it might be that network-manager is expecting something
> non-standard.

I've seen that error message once before when attempting to control
NetworkManager over an SSH session using nmcli. I believe the default policy
(enforced by PolicyKit) is to allow only users who have physical access to the
machine to control the network.

And "users who have physical access to the machine" are tracked by ConsoleKit.
It could be that slim and xdm do not work with ConsoleKit.

Cheers

-- 
Loong Jin

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