Wireless Internet for Non Root Users

[get2siva]

Hi Everyone, I've been intrested in linux for the past few months. I'm using Ubuntu 9.x version on my laptop. I'm able to connect to wireless internet as a root user.

However when I login as a non root user, I'm not able to connect to wifi. The NetworkManager program doesn't load at all. I've checked the permissions of /usr/sbin/NetworkManager file, it was 755. I did some googling and tried setting 'set user id' for it, resulting in 4755 perm.

But still, I can't open up the NetworkManager utility to connect to the WiFi. But I've no problem logging as a root user. I just don't want to connect to Internet as a root user.

Any advice on this would be very much helpful to me.

Thanks.

[Kloschüssel]

I think there should be a net or wireless group that you can join (usermod -G ..) which gives you the necessary rights. But you'll have to google it up.