Hi there Help would be much appreciated:
We are running Ubuntu Mate 18.04.3 LTS. When accessing the system via VNC, everything works fine. However, when accessing via X2go and we are trying to start or stop a VPN connection, we are asked to authenticate every time (see scrennshot below). The issue does not persist when using a VNC session.
Apparently the X2go session does not give me sufficient privilidge to allow "manipulate" network connections. Would anybody please be so kind to give advice regarding a workaround? I am not a Linux expert, unfortunately. I already tried the description here https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/503556-x2go-and-iniating-a-networ... by "Try editing /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and change managed=false to managed=true as below, *then reboot." but issue persists.*
*Help much appreciated.*
Thank you
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Are you starting a new session (session type "MATE") or are you connecting to a running X session (session type "connect to local desktop)?
Uli
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 4:34 PM Alexanderstr Miete <alexstrbonn@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there Help would be much appreciated:
We are running Ubuntu Mate 18.04.3 LTS. When accessing the system via VNC, everything works fine. However, when accessing via X2go and we are trying to start or stop a VPN connection, we are asked to authenticate every time (see scrennshot below). The issue does not persist when using a VNC session.
Apparently the X2go session does not give me sufficient privilidge to allow "manipulate" network connections. Would anybody please be so kind to give advice regarding a workaround? I am not a Linux expert, unfortunately. I already tried the description here https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/503556-x2go-and-iniating-a-networ... by "Try editing /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and change managed=false to managed=true as below, *then reboot." but issue persists.*
*Help much appreciated.*
Thank you
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Well, as far as I know this is how it is supposed to work. That kind of privileges are handled by policykit, which has a differentiation between local and remote users. And local users have more privileges than remote. When you start a new session with X2go you are definitely remote user, while with VNC you are kind of local (for policykit at least).
You can override that with a bunch of xml config files, but someone has to analyze all required privileges and for each one create a config.
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