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tolstoi

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 7

[solved] NetworkManager as user without password.

I just installed Arch Linux on my wife's netbook with KDE. Everything went fine.

Problem is that when the desktop is up kwallet appears and wants a password for NetworkManager services, in this case the wireless. I added the user to the network group and setup a file for that case which I found on the Arch NetworkManager wiki in polkit-1. On the other hand I read that this is pretty useless with systemd.

I haven't found a workaround yet and searching the forum or search engine didn't come up with a solution either.

Last edited by tolstoi (2013-03-20 17:03:50)

sdh

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Registered: 2013-03-17

Posts: 25

Re: [solved] NetworkManager as user without password.

If do not want the kwallet security, you can disable it from Network Management Settings -> other ->  connection secrets -< in file. However, I donot know the security impacts of doing this.

tolstoi

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] NetworkManager as user without password.

Ah, thanks. I'll try that today and post here if it worked or not.

tolstoi

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] NetworkManager as user without password.

Thanks a lot SDH, that was it.