[opensuse] NetworkManager in multi-user target
Just installed Tw on a new Toshiba Intel laptop. Having previous bad experiences with NetworkManager, I only have dealt with wicked on all my other wireless boxes. Found NetworkManager easy to set up and use in graphical.target but switching to multi-user.target, runlevel 3, I have no network connection and don't seem to be able to achieve it. Restarting NM and/or network does no good. What is the magic incantation? tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/01/2016 04:20 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Found NetworkManager easy to set up and use in graphical.target but switching to multi-user.target, runlevel 3, I have no network connection and don't seem to be able to achieve it. Restarting NM and/or network does no good.
What is the magic incantation?
Switch back to graphic target. Go into NetworkManager settings for your connection (click "Edit" on the connection). Set the connection to share with all users. Once that is done, it should connect even when in multi-user target mode. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> [01-02-16 00:31]:
On 01/01/2016 04:20 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Found NetworkManager easy to set up and use in graphical.target but switching to multi-user.target, runlevel 3, I have no network connection and don't seem to be able to achieve it. Restarting NM and/or network does no good.
What is the magic incantation?
Switch back to graphic target. Go into NetworkManager settings for your connection (click "Edit" on the connection). Set the connection to share with all users.
Once that is done, it should connect even when in multi-user target mode.
tks, done But now NM requests root pw before allowing network connection. Is there a work-a-round for that also. tks -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/02/2016 09:11 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
But now NM requests root pw before allowing network connection. Is there a work-a-round for that also. tks
Ooh! That's quite some change since I last tried this. So I did some experimenting. Here's what I did: I installed "NetworkManager-gnome" and "polkit-gnome". I logged into icewm. There, I ran two commands: --- clip here --- /usr/lib/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 & nm-applet & --- clip here --- That gave me a NetworkManager icon on the icewm panel. Using that applet, I edited the connection. This did ask for the root password. While editing the connection, I went to the security settings, where there was a place that I could enter the WiFi key. I entered it. At the end of that line there is a small graphic. Clicking that graphic, there was a choice between: save password for this user only (the default) save password for all users prompt for password every time That's not the exact wording, and maybe not the exact order. It was about the network wifi key. So I switched to save the password for all users. After that, everything is fine with no root prompts for connection, and it works also in multi-user mode. That option on where to save the password does not seem to exist in the KDE plasmoid. That's why I tried the gnome applet. In my previous experience, the password (key) for a shared connection was always stored for all users (in "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections"). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> [01-02-16 23:25]:
On 01/02/2016 09:11 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
But now NM requests root pw before allowing network connection. Is there a work-a-round for that also. tks
Ooh! That's quite some change since I last tried this.
So I did some experimenting. Here's what I did:
I installed "NetworkManager-gnome" and "polkit-gnome".
I logged into icewm. There, I ran two commands: --- clip here --- /usr/lib/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 & nm-applet & --- clip here ---
That gave me a NetworkManager icon on the icewm panel.
Using that applet, I edited the connection. This did ask for the root password.
While editing the connection, I went to the security settings, where there was a place that I could enter the WiFi key.
I entered it. At the end of that line there is a small graphic. Clicking that graphic, there was a choice between:
save password for this user only (the default) save password for all users prompt for password every time
That's not the exact wording, and maybe not the exact order. It was about the network wifi key. So I switched to save the password for all users.
After that, everything is fine with no root prompts for connection, and it works also in multi-user mode.
That option on where to save the password does not seem to exist in the KDE plasmoid. That's why I tried the gnome applet. In my previous experience, the password (key) for a shared connection was always stored for all users (in "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections").
Tks, since it appears to be functionally broken on openSUSE kde, I will file a bug report. I seem to recall a similar discussion about pw requirements lately but do not recall the circumstances. tks for your efforts. Bug #938510 appears to present same but filed as caused during upgrade from 13.2 to Tw. I added comment that it occurs on a clean Plasma5 install. Bug was filed on 07-17-2015, assigned tobnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com and os.gnome.maintainers and *only* action was added comments by original poster. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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