[SOLVED] "not authorized to control networking"
by deretsigernu from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4WHPZ)
I'm using 14.2-current 64-bit. Yesterday, I was connected to wireless with no problems. I always have to manually connect to wireless because I did something wrong with the wallet. Today, when I tried to connect to wireless, I got the error "not authorized to control networking". I searched for a possible solution. Most of the items I read said that it had to do with which groups my user is a part of. I am using a non-root user. Here are the groups:
Code:birdie : users lp wheel floppy audio video cdrom input plugdev power netdev scannerOne search result or another said that the user needed to be part of wheel. I used
Code:usermod -a -G wheel birdieto be sure the user was part of the group. That didn't help. I logged out of birdie and back in as root and I can connect to wireless as root with no problems. Log out of root and back in as non-root and can't connect, "not authorized".
I'm not sure what changed between yesterday and today. I did run an update through slackpkg yesterday. I also used slackpkg to update a few packages that were installed from AlienBob and the SBo repositories by commenting those repositories out of the blacklist. Libreoffice and PROJ, I think. I don't think it was those third party packages that affected anything, but maybe one of the other packages from the slackpkg update did something? I don't know which or why. I'm not sure how to check which packages were updated/installed or which .conf files were changed, if they even had an impact.
How do I get the non-root user authorized to change network settings again, please?
Code:birdie : users lp wheel floppy audio video cdrom input plugdev power netdev scannerOne search result or another said that the user needed to be part of wheel. I used
Code:usermod -a -G wheel birdieto be sure the user was part of the group. That didn't help. I logged out of birdie and back in as root and I can connect to wireless as root with no problems. Log out of root and back in as non-root and can't connect, "not authorized".
I'm not sure what changed between yesterday and today. I did run an update through slackpkg yesterday. I also used slackpkg to update a few packages that were installed from AlienBob and the SBo repositories by commenting those repositories out of the blacklist. Libreoffice and PROJ, I think. I don't think it was those third party packages that affected anything, but maybe one of the other packages from the slackpkg update did something? I don't know which or why. I'm not sure how to check which packages were updated/installed or which .conf files were changed, if they even had an impact.
How do I get the non-root user authorized to change network settings again, please?