Comment 19 for bug 379219

after a bit of poking about and reflection on the mention of authorizations and keyrings at the top of this thread i remembered that i had had some problems with policykit on the beta I installed on another computer in this network a while back. Looking about from that perspective I find that the network connections dialogue console tells me that my wireless was last running 2 days ago (wrong, it has been over a week since it worked) that auto eth0 has never worked or been connected anyway (should be news to you since this is eth0 i'm using right now).

network admin does not run out of System>administration>Network, only by cli: $sudo network-admin. but even then it does nothing. Looked at from the policykit perspective it seems that I am being blocked by PK from actually doing these things, even when as su. Or, to be more precise, the programs are being blocked and the eth0 connection is happening because it is setup before policyket can block access to the controls. or something like that, maybe?