Bug#816215: more info

2016-04-06 Thread Dima Kogan
Hi. Instead of trying to figure out why "sudo wpa_gui" works for you and not me, I just looked to see what it would take to make wpa_gui for for the non-root user. You mentioned something about the netdev group, but none of the wpa control files have this group; I don't know if this is a bug in th

Bug#816215: more info

2016-03-12 Thread Dima Kogan
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann writes: > On 2016-03-12, Dima Kogan wrote: >> >> It is reasonable to run applications that configure the network as root, >> and many people do that. Prior to the recent changes to X, "sudo >> wpa_gui" worked just fine, so I imagine that this particular bug is > > And it

Bug#816215: more info

2016-03-12 Thread Dima Kogan
Hi. I'm also affected by this bug. I'm not running any desktop environment; just a basic window manager (notion) on top of X. The failure is as described in the original bug report. It is reasonable to run applications that configure the network as root, and many people do that. Prior to the recen