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SpaceboyRoss

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Not authorized to use nmcli

I'm building an Arch Linux based distro and it has a gui, I seem to not be able to use nmcli. The default user is in the groups networking, osjs, users, and wheel. I tried getting polkit to allow the user but nmcli seems to ignore polkit.

seth

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Re: Not authorized to use nmcli

So you do something and something doesn't work. Therefore you tried something but something seems to ignore something…
And yes: that's exactly the "information" you provided.

For starters: nmcli talks to networkmanager via dbus, polkit will hardly be the issue. So maybe explain *how* you "seem to not be able to use nmcli".

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jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Not authorized to use nmcli

See: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Moving to NC...

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Not authorized to use nmcli

This is not the first time you've been pointed to ESR's document on asking effective questions.  Actually read it, think about it, and apply it ... preferably before you ask more questions here, and certainly before you attempt the following:

I'm building an Arch Linux based distro

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