From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Paul Jewell <paul@teulu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nmtui - user authorisation
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:20:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YcpKIONStnaZVS21@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6404264d-e6c9-831c-9e5f-8327488201eb@teulu.org>
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 10:07:17PM +0000, Paul Jewell wrote:
> Solved this - nmtui needs to be run as root; my script which invoked the
> program didn't consider that. Changing it to run as sudo gives me an
> opportunity to enter my password, and then successfully setup the wifi
> interface details.
Another option is to add nmtui to the list of programs that are setuid.
That way, any user on your system could configure wifi, which may be
more ergonomic.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Setuid-Programs.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-27 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-27 7:33 nmtui - user authorisation Paul Jewell
2021-12-27 22:07 ` Paul Jewell
2021-12-27 23:20 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-12-28 18:39 ` Paul Jewell
2021-12-29 0:50 ` raingloom
2021-12-29 11:04 ` Paul Jewell
2021-12-30 19:00 ` raingloom
2021-12-31 18:41 ` bug#52904: " Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-01-02 9:32 ` Paul Jewell
2022-01-02 11:07 ` Josselin Poiret
2022-01-02 20:42 ` Mekeor Melire
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