Everyone here seems to be over-complicating the issue, so let me put it in simple terms.
My wife took her laptop away for the week. I get a call from her telling me she can't connect to any Wifi. I didn't want to give her my admin password, so she had to spend the whole week without a computer (no internet, means no computer to my wife). I had no idea she needed special privileges (there was no prompt or option for that when creating her account), and she had just been using the existing Wifi connection that I created when I first got the laptop, so we didn't know about the issue. Needless to say, this is a MASSIVE USABILITY ISSUE. Linus had something to say about usability problems like this with Suse and his daughter. https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5 Now, I've spent the last several hours trying to figure out how to fix it, and none of the "solutions" are initiative, obvious, or findable using the UI. This is a non-issue on every other platform. Users should be able to change network connections on desktops/laptops. PERIOD. BY DEFAULT. ALWAYS. I don't give a damn about servers settings and especially neither does my wife. Please fix this. -- 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/964705 Title: System policy prevents modification of network settings for all users Status in NetworkManager: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” package in Debian: Fix Released Status in “network-manager” package in openSUSE: Fix Released Bug description: This seems like a regression? The screen shot is at http://thesii.org/Screenshot.jpg The nearest link I can find is from the forum area at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11467777 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.3.995+git201203152001.04b2a74-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Date: Sun Mar 25 19:36:45 2012 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120323) NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/964705/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
