Description of problem: My usual approach to installing XFCE Fedora on the several computers that I maintain is to create a "guest" account during the install and then use that to set up the real user accounts. This means that I use the "guest" account to set up the network just prior to the install (using the live version). Oddly enough, this seems to associate the user "guest" with the network and any time that I subsequently want to modify the network, I have to enter the "guest" password, and NOT the root password. This is not a big deal, but I would have expected that I should enter the root password, especially since I generally like to remove the "guest" user after everything is setup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFCE Fedora 24 How reproducible: Always. All computers. Since at least Fedora 20. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot with a Fedora Live disk/usb, Install to Hard Disk 2. during install create "guest" account and root password 3. reboot and login as guest 4. set up Internet as guest and perform post-install operations Actual results: Right-click on network icon and select "Edit Connections" Select a connection to edit and click on "Edit" XFCE PolicyKit Agent pops up asking for "guest" password. No other "Identity" options are provided. Seems to work if I type in the guest password. Expected results: XFCE PolicyKit Agent should at least ask for the root password, don't you think? Or perhaps no password at all? Additional info:
What is the output of: groups guest groups $yourotheruser ? In order to edit a system connection, administrative privileges are required (see the "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system" action in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy) and probably the test user belongs to the wheel group, while the other user not). Also, what is the message reported in the PolicyKit dialog ("System policy prevents ...")?
Sorry for the delayed response! I thought that I had already done this. Here are my answers to your questions: 44 % groups guest guest : guest wheel 45 % groups gordon gordon : faculty XFCE PolicyKit Agent System policy prevents changing the firewall configuration Identity: guest Password:
Created attachment 1247046 [details] [PATCH] editor: change flags of firewalld proxy to prevent polkit request
(In reply to Gordon A. Fenton from comment #2) > XFCE PolicyKit Agent > System policy prevents changing the firewall configuration This is an authentication request from firewalld when NM tries to load the list of available firewall zones. The attached patch in comment 3 should prevent such requests. Anyway, if you cancel the pop-up you should be able to edit the connection, correct?
(In reply to Beniamino Galvani from comment #3) > Created attachment 1247046 [details] > [PATCH] editor: change flags of firewalld proxy to prevent polkit request lgtm
(In reply to Thomas Haller from comment #5) > (In reply to Beniamino Galvani from comment #3) > > Created attachment 1247046 [details] > > [PATCH] editor: change flags of firewalld proxy to prevent polkit request > > lgtm Applied to master: https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=d898ecf9a958a1c3421b9ee79c50957044cbbcb2
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