Re: [PATCHES] Add wicd and wicd-service

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It mostly works, and I'm using it right now, but there are still some
>> remaining issues:
>>
>> * Unless run as root, the user interfaces to configure wicd via dbus
>>   always fail.  The wicd dbus configuration file is supposed to allow
>>   anyone in the 'netdev' group to access and configure the daemon, but
>>   this doesn't work.  I could use some help debugging this.
>
> I should have given more details.  Here's the error I get:
>
> address@hidden:~$ wicd-cli -y -l
> #     BSSID                   Channel ESSID
> ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.2:/org/wicd/daemon/wireless: 
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: 
> Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.12" 
> (uid=1000 pid=2445 comm="/gnu/store/y4v8psklnvp5il65dlwbd0w161k67r3p-python") 
> interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error 
> name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.2" (uid=0 pid=143 
> comm="/gnu/store/y4v8psklnvp5il65dlwbd0w161k67r3p-python")

I suspect we need to feed our system dbus with policy files or something
like that.

Ludo’.