[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#497643: Bug#497643: Bug#497643: nm-applet not displayed after GNOME installation from scratch

[Michael Biebl]

Ralph Plawetzki wrote:
> Michael Biebl schrieb, Am 03.09.2008 19:22:
>> Adding users automatically to group netdev is not going to happen, sorry.
>>
>> If you want a more automatic, dynamic way of granting access to NM,
>> please install consolekit.
>> See http://bugs.debian.org/496723 for more details.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
> 
> Dear Michael,
> 
> thank you very much for your quick reply.
> Sorry, I installed GNOME a couple of times on different Debian boxes and
> NM always was usable without any adding users to groups.
> I thought, that this is the default behaviour and wasn't aware, that
> Debian handles it the way, that you have to add the users to groups or
> use consolekit.
> 

If you are doing a fresh install, the user created during installation
should be added to group netdev (and other groups like plugdev and
powerdev) automatically. This is done by the installer though, and not
by the network-manager package itself.
I'm pretty sure that this worked with the etch installer, if it doesn't
work anymore with the lenny installer, this is probably a bug/regression.

Michael


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