[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#860040: Bug#866612: network-manager: no permission to toggle network/wifi

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 12:13 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 04:30 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 
> > > > There is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130796 which
> > provides some more background and also mentions a workaround, i.e.
> > mounting proc with gid=<somegroup> and adding polkitd to that group.
> > I haven't actually tested that though.
> 
> Thanks, I'll try the gid thing and report back, but I had the impression that
> the /proc/1/cgroup access was done as my user/group and not by polkitd as
> polkitd user/group.

Confirmed, giving access to /proc to polkitd user (running polkitd) is not
enough, the authentication agent seems to requires that as well (and granting
my user access to /proc denies the interest of hidepid).

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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