[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#758557: [network-manager] Re: Bug#758557: network-manager: not authorized to control networking

[OmegaPhil]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-1.1

I have just hit up against this bug on my Debian Testing VM. The
solution for me was to follow the instructions posted here
(http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.se/2012/05/howto-give-network-manager-sufficient.html),
i.e. create
'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla'
with the following contents:

==========================================

[nm-applet]
Identity=unix-group:netdev
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

==========================================

The connection was instantly configurable (starting a VPN connection in
this instance) afterwards.

I had just switched away from broken gdm3 to lightdm on the VM prior to
this.


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 3.14-2-amd64

Debian Release: jessie/sid
  990 testing         10.1.0.3
  500 unstable        10.1.0.3
  500 quodlibet-unstable 10.1.0.3
    1 experimental    10.1.0.3

--- Package information. ---
Depends                         (Version) | Installed
=========================================-+-================
libc6                           (>= 2.17) |
libdbus-1-3                    (>= 1.0.2) |
libdbus-glib-1-2               (>= 0.102) |
libgcrypt11                    (>= 1.4.5) |
libglib2.0-0                  (>= 2.37.3) |
libgnutls-deb0-28           (>= 3.2.10-0) |
libgudev-1.0-0                   (>= 165) |
libmm-glib0                    (>= 1.0.0) |
libndp0                          (>= 1.2) |
libnewt0.52                               |
libnl-3-200                   (>= 3.2.21) |
libnl-genl-3-200              (>= 3.2.21) |
libnl-route-3-200              (>= 3.2.7) |
libnm-glib4                 (>= 0.9.10.0) |
libnm-util2                 (>= 0.9.10.0) |
libpolkit-gobject-1-0          (>= 0.101) |
libreadline6                     (>= 6.0) |
libsoup2.4-1                  (>= 2.39.3) |
libsystemd-daemon0                (>= 31) |
libsystemd-login0                 (>= 31) |
libuuid1                        (>= 2.16) |
init-system-helpers            (>= 1.18~) |
lsb-base                      (>= 3.2-14) |
wpasupplicant                (>= 0.7.3-1) |
dbus                           (>= 1.1.2) |
udev                                      |
adduser                                   |
isc-dhcp-client           (>= 4.1.1-P1-4) |
libpam-systemd                            |
policykit-1                               |


Recommends        (Version) | Installed
===========================-+-===========
ppp              (>= 2.4.6) | 2.4.5+git20130610-4
dnsmasq-base                | 2.71-1
iptables                    | 1.4.21-2
modemmanager                | 1.2.0-1
crda                        | 1.1.2-1


Suggests           (Version) | Installed
============================-+-===========
avahi-autoipd                |


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