[SATLUG] Fedora 7 - Device Permissions Problems

[Sean Carolan]

On 7/24/07, Jeremy Mann <jeremymann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sean, I believe Fedora 7 uses udev. Even if you manually change the
> entry in /dev, the next reboot it will be back to the old permissions.
> Look for a rules file in /etc/udev and change the permissions there.


Ok, I've changed everything sound-related in /etc/udev/50-udev.rules to 666
instead of 660.  That ought to solve that problem.  Any ideas about the one
below?

> >
> > > I also can't get nm-applet to start unless I run it as root:
> > >
> > > [scarolan at kalki ~]$ nm-applet
> > >
> > > ** (nm-applet:4568): WARNING **: <WARN>  nma_dbus_init(): could not
> acquire
> > > its service.  dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.58" is
> not
> > > allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to
> > > security policies in the configuration file'


I'm sort of bummed that these things are broken right out of the box.  I
thought the Fedora developers had gotten past these annoying little
usability bugs.  Ubuntu has never denied me permission to use my own sound
or network card!  o.O