Le mardi 18 oct. 2011 à 22:38:33 (+0200 CEST), Michael Biebl a écrit : > reassign 645815 network-manager > forcemerge 642136 645815 > thanks > > Am 18.10.2011 21:55, schrieb Julien Valroff: > > Package: network-manager-gnome > > Version: 0.9.0-3 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > nm-connection-editor creates system-wide connections by default. This forces > > the active user to authenticate as an administrative user or as root. > > > > The previous behaviour (I'd say before 0.9 but not 100% sure) was imho > > correct: standard users could create private connections without needing > > extra rights. The current default behaviour prevents standard users from > > creating any connection, even private. > > Not quite true, as you can still create connections in nm-connection-editor > which are not system-wide.
True, but then, the user has to know what an SSID is, what kind of encryption scheme is used etc. Which I think is against NM philosophy. > But the new behaviour is definitely annoying. > That said, it is something upstream did purposefully and is most certainly not > going to change. Too bad, espacially as this can lead to unsecure situations: I had to send *my* password to my girlfriend by SMS yesterday, as she *had* to connect to a new wireless network and could not do it herself. Policykit default configuration doesn't help. My user is in the sudo group, but I still use the root account. Then, the only "administrative user" is me. I had to add my girlfriend account to the sudo group to avoid similar situations in the future, but I do not think it is optimum (I know I could add a .pkla file to allow specific user/group to deal with NM system wide settings, but I don't consider it a nice workaround neither). The default NM behaviour should definitively be configurable, I totally agree with Vincent on this point. > Please follow up on the existing bug report #642136 All my apologies, I have missed this bug report when looking for similar issues. Cheers, Julien -- .''`. Julien Valroff ~ <jul...@kirya.net> ~ <jul...@debian.org> : :' : Debian Developer & Free software contributor `. `'` http://www.kirya.net/ `- 4096R/ E1D8 5796 8214 4687 E416 948C 859F EF67 258E 26B1
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