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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:43 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Not authorized to control networking. Reply with quote

Hello everybody,
I have the problem that I am not allowed to add networks despite the activated elogind.
My DE is XFCE4 with lightdm and the gtk-greeter. I use NetworkManager, nm-applet and the nm-connection-edtior. The last two are my problem.
If I want to add a wlan via nm-connection-editor, then this is not possible and will be answered with the following error message:
Code:
Insufficient privileges.

If I want to disconnect my wire I get:
Code:
(1) org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control request failed: not autorized

If I open nm-connection-editor as root, I'm able to add a connection but I could not connect...

I'm desperate because I've tried everything and nothing works. I#ve wondered that restart and poweroff works, so I think polkit-elogind works?

My running services:
Code:
 
Runlevel: default
 dbus                                                              [  started  ]
 elogind                                                           [  started  ]
 iptables                                                          [  started  ]
 syslog-ng                                                         [  started  ]
 wpa_supplicant                                                    [  stopped  ]
 NetworkManager                                                    [  started  ]
 acpid                                                             [  started  ]
 avahi-daemon                                                      [  started  ]
 netmount                                                          [  started  ]
 xdm                                                               [  started  ]
 alsasound                                                         [  started  ]
 ntp-client                                                        [  stopped  ]
 cronie                                                            [  started  ]
 cupsd                                                             [  started  ]
 local                                                             [  started  ]
 agetty.tty2                                           [  started 00:28:45 (0) ]
 agetty.tty3                                           [  started 00:28:45 (0) ]
 agetty.tty5                                           [  started 00:28:44 (0) ]
 agetty.tty1                                           [  started 00:28:45 (0) ]
 agetty.tty4                                           [  started 00:28:45 (0) ]
 agetty.tty6                                           [  started 00:28:44 (0) ]
Runlevel: nonetwork
 local                                                             [  started  ]
Runlevel: shutdown
 killprocs                                                         [  stopped  ]
 savecache                                                         [  stopped  ]
 mount-ro                                                          [  stopped  ]
Runlevel: sysinit
 sysfs                                                             [  started  ]
 devfs                                                             [  started  ]
 udev                                                              [  started  ]
 dmesg                                                             [  started  ]
 kmod-static-nodes                                                 [  started  ]
 udev-trigger                                                      [  started  ]
 cgroups                                                           [  started  ]
Runlevel: boot
 modules                                                           [  started  ]
 hwclock                                                           [  started  ]
 procfs                                                            [  started  ]
 binfmt                                                            [  started  ]
 dmcrypt                                                           [  started  ]
 lvm                                                               [  started  ]
 fsck                                                              [  started  ]
 root                                                              [  started  ]
 mtab                                                              [  started  ]
 swap                                                              [  started  ]
 localmount                                                        [  started  ]
 sysctl                                                            [  started  ]
 bootmisc                                                          [  started  ]
 termencoding                                                      [  started  ]
 hostname                                                          [  started  ]
 haveged                                                           [  started  ]
 urandom                                                           [  started  ]
 loopback                                                          [  started  ]
 opensysusers                                                      [  started  ]
 keymaps                                                           [  started  ]
 net.lo                                                            [  started  ]
Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged
Dynamic Runlevel: needed/wanted
 lvmetad                                                           [  started  ]
 xdm-setup                                                         [  started  ]
Dynamic Runlevel: manual


my groups:
Code:
gid=985(users) Gruppen=985(users),3(sys),986(video),988(storage),990(optical),994(disk),995(audio),998(wheel)


What info [/code]do you need more?


Last edited by Phoen7x on Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:48 pm; edited 1 time in total
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try "sudo" before your commands. It sounds like you need root priviledge or are not part of a required group.

Run "ls -l `which <cammand name>`" on the commands that fail on privilege to get the group name.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tony0945 wrote:
Try "sudo" before your commands. It sounds like you need root priviledge or are not part of a required group.

Run "ls -l `which <cammand name>`" on the commands that fail on privilege to get the group name.


Thank you for your answer. If i open nm-connection-editor as root, i'm able to save the wifi, but i'm not able to connector to it. I've testet to add me to network group an do ]this workaround but the problem is still present.
Code:

$ ls -l `which nm-applet`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 335408 27. Okt 18:52 /usr/bin/nm-applet
$ ls -l `which nm-connection-editor`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 858760 27. Okt 18:52 /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You need someone with more group knowledge than I and experienced with network manager, which I am not.

These are the groups I belong to, including many that probably don't exist on your machine.
Code:
tony@MSI ~ $ grep tony /etc/group
tty:x:5:mythtv,tony,jacob,maggi
lp:x:7:lp,tony,root,jacob,cindy,maggi
wheel:x:10:root,tony,developer,maggi,palemoon
audio:x:18:jacob,cindy,tony,mythtv,vdr,kodi,developer,maggi,palemoon
cdrom:x:19:jacob,cindy,tony,vdr,kodi,maggi
tape:x:26:root,jacob,cindy,tony,maggi
video:x:27:root,jacob,cindy,tony,mythtv,vdr,kodi,maggi
cdrw:x:80:root,jacob,cindy,tony,kodi,maggi
usb:x:85:root,jacob,cindy,tony,kodi,maggi
users:x:100:jacob,cindy,tony,kodi,developer,maggi,palemoon
portage:x:250:portage,tony
tony:x:1002:
locate:x:120:tony,maggi
lpadmin:x:106:tony,maggi
plugdev:x:999:tony,maggi
wireshark:x:996:tony,maggi
cron:x:16:tony,maggi
git:x:1004:tony
vboxusers:x:993:tony
vboxguest:x:992:tony
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use OpenRc and netifrc. You need to be root to run the scripts.
Someone with network manager experience please jump in.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the wiki
Quote:
If nm-applet fails to create new networks with the error "Insufficient Privileges," then it could be a policy kit issue. Create the following file:
Check out the link.

Sorry, don't use policy kit or any other *kit either.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the many answers.

Oh sorry, I'm running OpenRC and have also installed netifrc
This wiki, I've testet but it doesn't helped me.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems to be solved by changing plugdev to networkmanager in the workaround.
Could be closed.
Thanks. :)
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glad it's working. Welcome to Gentoo!

Edit your first post please, and add [SOLVED] to it. Some people put it in the front, some in the back. I'm not sure if any position is preferred.
"Add" has always meant "insert after everything else" to me, be I can see how it could mean "insert it anywhere".
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Personally, I like when the marker is at the beginning of the subject, so that I can tell when scanning down the index which threads are solved or not without needing to follow the subject line to its end.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 2:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Makes sense, Hu. IMHO the instructions should say "prepend [SOLVED]" rathen than "add ..." which to me implies append.
A poll would be interesting.
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