Hallo Mathieu, Yes, I understand your opinion, it makes sence in enterprice environments. But in the situation, when outdoor staffs have to connect their company laptops from outside the company, the IT-administrators have to set up your special file into //var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/. /Do they all know this?
A lot of private users choose Linux, because they want a relatively secure system. Do they like the solution to use sudo, when they are logged in as normal users (to surf the internet)? And what about the families with one administrator and kids and grandparents? On private computers (people are the only users of their system), it's recommended everybody to use at least two separate logins, independent from the respective operating system. One login for admin purpose only, the other for daily work as a normal user without admin rights. And many programmers suggest never (!) to type the admin password, when a normal user is logged in. We cannot imagine all security vulnerabilities in this context. Think about temporary keyloggers, realized f.i. by JavaScript + XSS, or by Flash Player content. For better clarity and comfort, please, could you integrate the assignment of the permission „create network connections“ into the admin application „users and groups“? Optimally subdivided into cable, WLAN, Bluetooth, GSM and so on. Formerly group dip? Best regards, J. R. B. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1045972 Title: Administrator password for WLAN-connections? Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: In Ubuntu 10.04 a normal user could connect to new WLANs. In 12.04 (with Unity) a question for admin password comes up with this action. I think, connecting to new WLANs should stay a right of normal users. I cannot be with them everytime, or I cannot give them the admin password. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1045972/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
