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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 15:54 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> Yeah, the polkitd user is actually experimental only. The version in
> unstable runs as root.

I'm actually using policykit-1 from experimental (0.113-6) so it does run as
polkitd user.
> 
> Hm, I guess this means you'd have to add your user to that group as well
> (or rather any user who wants to use polkit). Which sort of defeats the
> purpose of hidepid=2 to some extent.

Indeed.
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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