Public bug reported:
Fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.
network-manager:
Installed: 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Candidate: 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Version table:
*** 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.2.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64
Packages
1.1.93-0ubuntu4 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
Steps to reproduce the bug (first part):
1. After a fresh install, for an administrator account connect to a secure WiFi
network.
Store password (in my case WPA) and through NM GUI allow all users to use
WiFi network.
2. Create non-administrator user, called dummy, say.
3. After every reboot, an error will appear for dummy on login that he does not
have sufficient
privileges to make changes to network settings.
After reading
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1574020/comments/26,
this can be fixed by changing the permissions= entry in
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
for the affected WiFi network.
Steps to reproduce the bug (second part):
Now on every reboot, the user dummy will be asked for the WiFi password once he
logs in. Nothing that can be done through GUI (either as administrator or as
dummy) changes that. Similarly, LightDM asks for the WiFi password after every
reboot.
In my case I could fix the issue by manually editing the following
entries in the SSID file in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/:
psk-flags=0
psk=<WIFI_PASSWORD>
Note that psk-flags was set to 1 beforehand. The meaning of these values can be
found with
man nm-settings.
Note that this bug may or may not be related to the following bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1574020
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1270791
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1354924
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1735549
Title:
WiFi password asked at every reboot for non-admin users (and LightDM)
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.
network-manager:
Installed: 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Candidate: 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Version table:
*** 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.2.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64
Packages
1.1.93-0ubuntu4 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
Steps to reproduce the bug (first part):
1. After a fresh install, for an administrator account connect to a secure
WiFi network.
Store password (in my case WPA) and through NM GUI allow all users to use
WiFi network.
2. Create non-administrator user, called dummy, say.
3. After every reboot, an error will appear for dummy on login that he does
not have sufficient
privileges to make changes to network settings.
After reading
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1574020/comments/26,
this can be fixed by changing the permissions= entry in
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
for the affected WiFi network.
Steps to reproduce the bug (second part):
Now on every reboot, the user dummy will be asked for the WiFi password once
he logs in. Nothing that can be done through GUI (either as administrator or as
dummy) changes that. Similarly, LightDM asks for the WiFi password after every
reboot.
In my case I could fix the issue by manually editing the following
entries in the SSID file in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/:
psk-flags=0
psk=<WIFI_PASSWORD>
Note that psk-flags was set to 1 beforehand. The meaning of these values can
be found with
man nm-settings.
Note that this bug may or may not be related to the following bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1574020
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1270791
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1354924
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