Hi,
I am trying to use the network-manager snap to create a hotspot,
using a raspberry PI 3 with an external wifi dongle (I am sshing over eth0 and have wlan0 and wlan1 available) .
I can connect to a different WIFI network using: sudo network-manager.nmcli d wifi connect 'ssid' password 'pass'
But when I’m trying to create a hotspot using: sudo network-manager.nmcli d wifi hotspot ifname wlan0 con-name con1 ssid testssid password mypassword1
I get the following error: Error: Connection activation failed: (18) Shared connection service failed to start.
I have read it could be related to dnsmasq not accessible but I cannot see any available plugin for it on the network-manager snap
I had a look at Journalctl and saw permission errors such as : rror> [1571218882.8686] modprobe: '/sbin/modprobe ip_tables' failed: Failed to execute child process "/sbin/modprobe" (Permission denied) rror> [1571218882.8730] modprobe: '/sbin/modprobe iptable_nat' failed: Failed to execute child process "/sbin/modprobe" (Permission denied) rror> [1571218882.8773] modprobe: '/sbin/modprobe nf_nat_ftp' failed: Failed to execute child process "/sbin/modprobe" (Permission denied) rror> [1571218882.9843] device (wlan0): share: (wlan0) failed to start dnsmasq: Failed to execute child process "/usr/sbin/dnsmasq" (Permission denied)
The network-manager snap, if it is going to manipulate the firewall, should plugs firewall-control, which lets snapd know to load: arp_tables, br_netfilter, ip6table_filter and iptable_filter. The modules listed above all autoload on demand and the network-manager snap should not be loading them manually.
