I have new information. text-only commands do work as xepected. Network manager uses GNOME panel settings and relies on GNOME processes inheriting or escalating the privileges of the requisite subroutines. As only network-manager is specified as an allowable sudo binary, the system (quite rightly) refuses to allow the sub-processes upon which n-m depends to run as root. So n-m bails.
How can I find out which processes n-m is dependant on ? -- regular user can't start admin application with sudo as specified in sudoers https://launchpad.net/bugs/92401 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
