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wicd asks for root password
I've been hesitating to ask here or the wicd forums but they appear to be closed to registration .
I didn't like nm-applet and for some reason I decided to get rid of it and replace it with wicd.
The problem is that wicd asks for the root password to "get acces to your computer's network card".
After some google searches everyone told me I needed to run the deamon "/etc/init.d/wicd". if it is running wicd will not ask for the root pass.
first I tried to add "/etc/init.d/wicd start" to rc.local. this didn't appear to run and yes I've chmoded 775 to rc.local, I assume this is suposed to make it runnable? so I added "rm -f /home/knoppix/testfile" and after next boot testfile was still there.
then I installed sysv-rc-conf but wicd was already getting started up at boot? after looking with rcconf(another tool) it turned out that knoppix-autoconfigure and another script was never run. So I'm guessing knoppix doesn't really looks at the other /init.d/ scripts and just runs knoppix-autoconfigure.
at last I had a little bit succes with /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfigure. I edited it and found some lines that started the default networking deamon. I've replaced it with wicd and sure enough, when I boot and look at "/etc/init.d/wicd status" it says wicd is running.
The problem now is that wicd still asks for a root password but it doesn't mattter what pass I give, it just works.
If i gave a fake pass befor the fix I got a bunch of error messages about the deamon could not be started,... .
I'm using wicd 1.7.0 and knoppix 6.4.4 cd edition.
Forester, from this topic http://www.knoppix.net/forum/threads...etwork-Manager I could see that you have wicd running on a debian system and from here: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/threads...highlight=wicd I've read you have some notes on a piece of paper about wicd, did I forget a step on that piece of paper?
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