nmcli dost not disable Wi-Fi, needs root privileges

[Hans Ginzel]

Hello!

Command
nmcli nm wifi off
does no disable Wi-Fi for me. But with sudo it does. Thinkpad X61s.

Command nmcli should not need root privileges. The applet in menu bar also does not.

Thanks
HG

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.22-lowlatency 3.8.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-lowlatency i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iw'
Date: Tue Sep 10 10:21:28 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
IpRoute:
 default via 10.76.66.254 dev eth0 proto static
 10.76.66.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.76.66.49 metric 1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
MarkForUpload: True
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=false
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: yes
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-08-11 (29 days ago)
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 wlan0 802-11-wireless unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled enabled disabled enabled disabled

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Hi,

Did you do this while physically connected to a console, or via SSH?

Are special configurations done by your system administrator (assuming this is in a corporate environment) to limit access to specific administrative tasks on your computer?

The two possibilities that come to mind would be if this is attempted via a SSH connection, in which case this is "expected" behavior (SSH connections are not local, and thus not considered the same way when checking for permissions) or a custom configuration for policykit that restricts the "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi" permission.

Regards,

/ Matt

[Hans Ginzel (hans-matfyz)]

Hello!

You are right. I have executed nmcli from xrdp/vnc session.
Locally it works. But the bug is, that if executed remotely neither an
error/warning message is written nor is the error-code set nor prompt
for password is emitted. It is also interesting, that

sudo nmcli nm
wifi off

works from remote session, but

echo '#!/bin/sh' >wifi_off

echo 'nmcli nm wifi off' >>wifi_off

sudo chown root.root wifi_off

sudo chmod +s wifi_off

./wifi_off

does not.

I am the
administrator, it is my notebook.

Best regards,

Hans

Dne
30.09.2013 17:54, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre napsal:

> Hi,
>
> Did you
do this while physically connected to a console, or via SSH?
>
> Are
special configurations done by your system administrator (assuming
>
this is in a corporate environment) to limit access to specific
>
administrative tasks on your computer?
>
> The two possibilities that
come to mind would be if this is attempted
> via a SSH connection, in
which case this is "expected" behavior (SSH
> connections are not local,
and thus not considered the same way when
> checking for permissions) or
a custom configuration for policykit that
> restricts the
"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi"
> permission.
>
>
Regards,
>
> / Matt
>
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