UI can't connect to IPC on Mac OS X

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#97 UI can't connect to IPC on Mac OS X

Status: open

Owner: Terry Simons

Labels: User Interface (46)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2007-10-14

Created: 2007-10-14

Private: No

The UI can't connect to the IPC channel on Mac OS X by default.

Mac OS X uses root/wheel for the user/group when creating the socket, but the UI apparently doesn't start up with the wheel group.

A quick workaround to bypass this for testing purposes is to sudo chmod 777 /tmp/xsupplicant.sock

- Terry