No wifi in 16.04 because of permission issue not having systemd-network permission

[Marius B. Kotsbak]

After upgrading to 16.04, I had no access to wifi. It only worked as root. I fixed it by adding my user to the new "systemd-network" group.

The existing users (or those in group netdev) should be automatically be added to "systemd-network" group during upgrade.

[Ted Hayes (thayes-x)]

How did you achieve this?

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Fix it? Go to user manager, find the user and add the group specified above.

[Steven Roh (stivikipirdi)]

I've been affected too.
"sudo adduser my_user systemd-network" worked for me ! Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-life on April 29, 2021.

I'm setting this bug to "Incomplete" as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for One Hundred Papercuts because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]