Wireless access now requires root password

[carltonh]

Wireless access now requires root password on Sabayon every single time you power on. I can't tolerate this setting and need to get it back to the sane settings not requiring root passwords as used in every other Linux system, but how do I do that? This is the case on 2 different computers, both run Gnome and LXDE, and it happens on either DE.

[sabayonino]

check if your user is in netdev group . If It isn't run

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# gpasswd -a your_user netdev

[edit] restart X-session after this

[carltonh]

I don't know how to check the netdev group, but I did enter the command you gave, and I got a response that adding the user was successful.

However, it still made no difference and when trying to connect to a network, it still asks for the administrative password with the warning,

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System policy prevents modification of network settings for all users.

Once I enter the admin password it works fine. But I don't want to do this everyday for my kids PC or have to give them the admin password.

[carltonh]

I also tried "equo remove networkmanager" intending to reinstall it hoping any odd settings would be removed. That command made it also remove 9 total packages including gdm and gnome-shell. Yikes! "equo install networkmanager" then only added back networkmanager and I had to "equo install" all the others individually before logging out.

That didn't fix anything, but at least nothing is further broken.