On Thursday 23 March 2006 20:44, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > On Thursday 23 March 2006 02:06 pm, Christopher Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:15, Fathi Boudra wrote: > > > Package: kwifimanager > > > Version: 4:3.5.1-2 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > kwifimanager should be called using kdesu and need to depends on > > > wireless-tools instead of libiw28 because it uses and parses iwlist. > > > > The dependency we can add, but I'm not sure I like making users run > > kwifimanager as root. It can be used as a network monitor without root > > privileges, and to configure a user's wireless networks it will ask for > > a root password when needed. > > > > The only problem I see at the moment is that it can't find iwlist, > > since /sbin isn't in the normal user's path. But "iwlist $INTERFACE > > scanning" will return information to non-root users. So perhaps a > > better patch would be to make kwifimanager search in /usr/sbin > > and /sbin, if it can't find iwlist in the regular path. > > > > I can't test kwifimanager too much without a connection, though. Let me > > know what you think. > > > > Cheers, > > Christopher Martin > > I'd say running as root is wrong as well. > > Though I do like the idea of searching /usr/bin and /sbin. For the average > user, this would be a big improvement imho.
I just checked with websvn.kde.org and this additional lookup has beend added to the KDE 3.5 branch about 2 weeks ago, so it should be in the 3.5.2 release. http://tinyurl.com/hk8rs Cheers, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
