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connman permissions

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From: Christopher Howard <christopher <at> librehacker.com>
To: bug-guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: connman permissions
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:16:29 -0800

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Short description: In Guix, controlling connman seems to require root
permissions, but a non-root user should be able to control it.

Longer description: I am running a DE with slim + elogind + lxqt +
connman. When logged in to lxqt, I can run applications like csmt and
connmanctl to control connman, but if I start them as a non-root user,
I get a chain of dbus permission errors and am not able to see or
change network settings.

I have attached my system config file as well as info about my Guix
commit and system hardware.

Looking at Guix source, it appears that lxqt-desktop-service-type has
polkit settings, but I'm not seeing something similiar in the source
for connman package (connman.scm). I checked with the folks on #connman
and they said that connman does provide a polkit policy file which
should be working in conjunction with elogind, the standard location
being /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/net.connman.policy.

It could just be a problem with my system config definition, of course,
but it is not obvious to me, and it didn't seem to be anything obvious
to the folks on #guix IRC.

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Message #8 received at 47326 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher <at> librehacker.com>
Cc: 47326 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47326: connman permissions
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:09:36 +0900

Hi,

Christopher Howard <christopher <at> librehacker.com> writes:

> Short description: In Guix, controlling connman seems to require root
> permissions, but a non-root user should be able to control it.

Is this still a problem?  It seems the connman-service-type should take
care of extending polkit with its actions correctly already, from a cursory
review.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

Message #15 received at 47326-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Howard <christopher <at> librehacker.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47326-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47326: connman permissions
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:41:26 -0800

> Is this still a problem?  It seems the connman-service-type should take
> care of extending polkit with its actions correctly already, from a cursory
> review.

I'm not sure, as I stopped using it a long time ago. I'll go ahead an close this bug.

-- 
Christopher Howard

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