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c2hollow

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From: Kitchener, Ontario

Registered: 2013-11-27

Posts: 30

Running netctl as root but dhcpcd not enough permissions

I'm trying to get my Arch working with eduroam, using netctl and following netctl-eduroam's example.

However, I get a failure if I run

sudo netctl restart eduroam 

looking at the journalctl, I see:

Sep 08 07:53:11 bluerocket dhcpcd[314]: dhcpcd will not work correctly unless run as r
Sep 08 07:53:11 bluerocket dhcpcd[314]: open `/run/dhcpcd.pid': Permission denied
Sep 08 07:53:11 bluerocket dhcpcd[314]: control_start: No such file or directory
Sep 08 08:38:09 bluerocket dhcpcd[7823]: dhcpcd will not work correctly unless run as 
Sep 08 08:38:16 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: wlp0s26u1u4i2: if_init: Permission denied
Sep 08 08:40:40 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: usb0: up_interface: Operation not permitted
Sep 08 08:40:40 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: usb0: if_init: Permission denied
Sep 08 08:40:40 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: enp0s26u1u2: up_interface: Operation not permi
Sep 08 08:40:40 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: enp0s26u1u2: if_init: Permission denied
Sep 08 08:41:36 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: enp0s26u1u2: if_init: Permission denied

Why does dhcpcd not have enough permissions if I ran netctl as root?

s3kt0r

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Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 208

Re: Running netctl as root but dhcpcd not enough permissions

I'm trying to get my Arch working with eduroam, using netctl and following netctl-eduroam's example.

However, I get a failure if I run

sudo netctl restart eduroam 

looking at the journalctl, I see:

Sep 08 07:53:11 bluerocket dhcpcd[314]: dhcpcd will not work correctly unless run as r
Sep 08 07:53:11 bluerocket dhcpcd[314]: open `/run/dhcpcd.pid': Permission denied
Sep 08 07:53:11 bluerocket dhcpcd[314]: control_start: No such file or directory
Sep 08 08:38:09 bluerocket dhcpcd[7823]: dhcpcd will not work correctly unless run as 
Sep 08 08:38:16 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: wlp0s26u1u4i2: if_init: Permission denied
Sep 08 08:40:40 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: usb0: up_interface: Operation not permitted
Sep 08 08:40:40 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: usb0: if_init: Permission denied
Sep 08 08:40:40 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: enp0s26u1u2: up_interface: Operation not permi
Sep 08 08:40:40 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: enp0s26u1u2: if_init: Permission denied
Sep 08 08:41:36 bluerocket dhcpcd[315]: enp0s26u1u2: if_init: Permission denied

Why does dhcpcd not have enough permissions if I ran netctl as root?

mhm... instead trying with sudo, maybe open a # shell and give the netctl command there?

edit: also, check https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171165

Last edited by s3kt0r (2014-09-10 14:54:02)

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