{"id":1792,"date":"2020-03-24T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T03:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2020-03-24T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T03:03:11","slug":"ubuntu-mint-allow-non-privileged-user-to-connect-to-new-wifi-ssid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu\/Mint Allow Non-Privileged User To Connect To New WiFi SSID"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p># cd \/usr\/share\/polkit-1\/actions\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Make a backup copy of the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy file:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># cp -p org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy.orig<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Edit the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy file:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># vi org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the &lt;action id=&#8221;org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system&#8221;&gt; section, look for<br \/>\n&lt;allow_active&gt;auth_admin_keep&lt;\/allow_active&gt; toward the end of the section.<\/p>\n<p>Change that line to:<br \/>\n&lt;allow_active&gt;yes&lt;\/allow_active&gt;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># shutdown -r now<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p># cd \/usr\/share\/polkit-1\/actions\/ Make a backup copy of the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy file: # cp -p org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy.orig Edit the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy file: # vi org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy In the &lt;action id=&#8221;org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system&#8221;&gt; section, look for &lt;allow_active&gt;auth_admin_keep&lt;\/allow_active&gt; toward the end of the section. Change that line to: &lt;allow_active&gt;yes&lt;\/allow_active&gt; # shutdown -r now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,144,493],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-linux","tag-network","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}