Comment 3 for bug 1223237

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
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
>
Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
>
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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