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    Network Manager issues

    Having recently updated from 19.19 to 20.04, I am now unable to add/edit any connections. When I try, a dialogue box pops up saying;

    "Failed to activate {SSID}
    Not authorized to control networking."

    I have spent some time trawling the web but no obvious solution was found, but one post mentioned "nmcli g permissions" which I tried as user and using sudo.

    User output;

    PERMISSION VALUE
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control auth
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protecte d no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.sys tem no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own auth
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hos tname auth
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.glo bal-dns auth
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload auth
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback auth
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-connectivity-check no
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan unknown

    Sudo output;

    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protecte d yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.sys tem yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hos tname yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.glo bal-dns yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-connectivity-check yes
    org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan unknown

    Now it seems to me that I should have more permissions as a user. How do I fix this issue?

    JIm!

    #2
    Within the Network widget, there is a check box for 'Allow all users to use this connection' (or similar). Ensure that it is checked.
    Windows no longer obstructs my view.
    Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
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      #3
      All my existing connections always have that option set and have checked they still are. This seems to be a system level permissions issue. Worked totally happily over at least 3 distro updates but this one got screwed somehow.

      Jim!

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        #4
        I have just checked what the user permissions are when you boot into a live version of Kubuntu 20.04 and all the permissions when checked at User level are set to "yes". So I would venture that this is the issue, now all I need to find out how to re-set these permissions.

        Jim!

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          #5
          Here are my user permissions:
          Code:
          jerryAspire-V3-771:~$ nmcli g permissions
          PERMISSION                                                        VALUE   
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network             yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi                yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan                yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax               yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake                         no      
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control                    yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected               yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open                    yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system             yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own                yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname           auth    
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.global-dns         auth    
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload                             auth    
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback                auth    
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics          yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-connectivity-check  yes     
          org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan                          unknown
          Here is what systemctl status NetworkManager showed:
          Code:
          ager
          ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
               Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
               Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-07-05 09:52:08 CDT; 5h 33min ago
                 Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
             Main PID: 822 (NetworkManager)
                Tasks: 3 (limit: 18909)
               Memory: 19.1M
               CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
                       └─822 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
          
          Jul 05 09:52:12 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960732.9946] dhcp4 (wlp13s0): option subnet_mask          => '255.255.255.0'
          Jul 05 09:52:12 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960732.9946] dhcp4 (wlp13s0): state changed unknown -> bound
          Jul 05 09:52:12 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960732.9955] device (wlp13s0): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
          Jul 05 09:52:12 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960732.9971] device (wlp13s0): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
          Jul 05 09:52:12 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960732.9973] device (wlp13s0): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
          Jul 05 09:52:12 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960732.9977] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
          Jul 05 09:52:12 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960732.9992] policy: set 'GreyGeek5' (wlp13s0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS
          Jul 05 09:52:12 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960732.9999] device (wlp13s0): Activation: successful, device activated.
          Jul 05 09:52:15 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960735.0912] manager: startup complete
          Jul 05 09:54:30 jerryAspire-V3-771 NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1593960870.3987] agent-manager: agent[003f70eb89f420ef,:1.52/org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement/1000]: agent registered
          https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkM...-settings.html

          https://askubuntu.com/questions/6376...ger-to-default
          Last edited by GreyGeek; Jul 05, 2020, 02:43 PM.
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