no root

[magnetophon]

Would it be possible to make it run without root?

[conn]

change the permissions of all the executables associated with connman and/or change the group of the user you're running it with to something that is able to handle network connections?

[taylorchu]

the dir is owned by root.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:26 PM, darlinger notifications@github.com wrote:

change the permissions of all the executables associated with connman and/or change the group of the user you're running it with to something that is able to handle network connections?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/march-linux/connman_dmenu/issues/3#issuecomment-70395046 .

[conn]

you can't just change the group that owns it? chown -R root:adm [dir]

[Manouchehri]

Both connmanctl and connman-ui-gtk are able to change WiFi networks without root on Arch Linux, so it seems that it should be possible without much trouble?

[magnetophon]

Sure it's possible, and even easy.

I was just suggesting it'd be done in the main program.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:56:28AM -0800, David Manouchehri wrote:

Both connmanctl and connman-ui-gtk are able to change WiFi networks without root on Arch Linux, so it seems that it should be possible without much trouble?

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[Rergis]

maybe is too late for answer (all here seems dormant), but i faced and solved this trouble recently.

in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/connman-nmcompat.conf i changed (as root):

<deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>

to:

<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>

when i realized that could run connmanctl from terminal without errors, got rid of these lines in connman_dmenu script:

if (( EUID != 0 )); then dmenu_notify 'please run it as root' exit 1 fi

Now, connman_dmenu runs without root for me.

[taylorchu]

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