https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359842
Fabian Vogt <fab...@ritter-vogt.de> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|WONTFIX |---
CC| |fab...@ritter-vogt.de
Version|5.5.4 |5.10.5
Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED
--- Comment #24 from Fabian Vogt <fab...@ritter-vogt.de> ---
Reopening as this still needs clarification IMO. Especially the latter part:
> But: if the wallet is protected by the password, and the wallet has to be
> opened, the *root* password is requested (for *modifying* the shared
> connection).
> Of course, changing the polkit rules to allow modifying the connection would
> prevent that, but IMHO that's only a workaround.
> Oh, and what's especially strange: you can just cancel the polkit root
> password request without entering the root password. The connection will
> still >be successfully established.
> So this root password request is bogus anyway.
> To me it looks that plasma-nm is indeed doing something wrong.
AFAICT the bug is actually a design flaw: NetworkManager gets the general
message to activate a connection, but as it has no secrets saved, it has to ask
for them using the secret agent. This causes NM to ask for the "modify.system"
privilege, although the user has direct access to the secret storage anyway.
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