I've installed WiFi Networks Manager and when I start it, it asks for a password. Whatever I type in is ignored.
I assume you mean by WiFi Networks Manager
net-mgmt/wifimgr, doesn’t entering the root password work, and is/are the user(s) in the wheel group? Works on my system.
Is there any way of avoiding this login?
I think
/usr/local/bin/wifimgr is hard linked to
/usr/local/libexec/wifimgrsu (
pkg info -l wifimgr, or follow the link to freshports), emphasis on
su, as like administrator, root. As the manual of
wifimgr(8) states, it’s acting as an editor of the
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file, and that file is writable by root only (-rw-r--r--). It seems
wifimgr will always call
wifimgrsu. By default, to
su(1) root, users need to be in the wheel group.
Next time please provide the ports (packages) exact name, including wrapping around the
[PORT]<Port Program>[/PORT] BB code (the three gears icon in the icon menu of the forum editor), to make it clear what program is meant, and to make it easy for others to reach to the information of that program at freshports.org. Others might not bother investigating the matter without more details provided by the questioner.
