[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#816215: more info

[Dima Kogan]

Hi. Instead of trying to figure out why "sudo wpa_gui" works for you and
not me, I just looked to see what it would take to make wpa_gui for for
the non-root user.

You mentioned something about the netdev group, but none of the wpa
control files have this group; I don't know if this is a bug in the
wpasupplicant package. Specifically, I had

    $ ls -ld /run/wpa_*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6 Apr  6 15:08 /run/wpa_action.wlp3s0.pid
    drwxr-x--- 2 root root 60 Apr  6 15:08 /run/wpa_supplicant
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6 Apr  6 15:08 /run/wpa_supplicant.wlp3s0.pid

    $ ls -l /run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0 
    srwxrwx--- 1 root root 0 Apr  6 15:08 /run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0

Manually giving access to all users makes this work:

    $ sudo chmod 777 /run/wpa_supplicant
    $ sudo chmod 777 /run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0

After this I can run wpa_gui as a regular user, and things continue to
work. Is this closer to how wpa_gui is supposed to be used? Is there a
bug in the supplicant packaging?

If this IS closer to the intent, then wpa_gui should be shipped in
/usr/bin, not /usr/sbin.

Thanks