On Friday 19 April 2024 04:05:24 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
I just ran into polkit hell + network-manager - like Bill. This is how to get network-manager working for your user, so you do not need to run it as root:
Check your permissions - if you get "yes" on all lines, you are good, but then you won't have network-manager issues at all: $ nmcli gen permissions
If you don't get "yes on all lines, then create this file:
#/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.rules polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control") return "yes"; });
Now check again - all lines should say "yes": $ nmcli gen permissions
Now you can do bad stuff with network connections from all your systms users, but as you most likely are the only system user it should be ok:
$ nmtui
Nik
For what it's worth, here is the output that I get:
$ nmcli gen permissions PERMISSION VALUE org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-connectivity-check yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.global-dns auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake no org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected yes
Not quite YES on every line. Don't know if auth is good or bad, and only one line is NO. But maybe I don't want that, anyway? It looks like that would connect the network on wake?
Bill