Path: csiph.com!xmission!3.us.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.in-chemnitz.de!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: David Christensen Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 22:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Wed May 11 20:43:23 2022 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.357 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, NICE_REPLY_A=-3.247, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.0 Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/789018 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/7e8911f5-9841-790a-8bd7-46b816177eb7@holgerdanske.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 24 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 13:43:04 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <7e8911f5-9841-790a-8bd7-46b816177eb7@holgerdanske.com> X-Original-References: <84mtfo5g2j.fsf@example.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:248111 On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote: > I have a network manager applet on my xfce4 desktop. I am logged in as a > non root user, and I can select edit connections and change the IPv4 > settings to DHCP address only and then put in a DNS, then save. If I > look at /etc/resolv.conf though nothing has changed. Restarting > networking or rebooting makes no difference. Perhaps this menu option > should only appear for root, or should cause an error message for non > root users? I typically need to enter the root password whenever I make changes via the Xfce NetworkManager Applet. Please run and post: $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a $ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf $ cat /etc/resolv.conf David