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and subject line Bug#859934: fixed in network-manager 1.8.0-3
has caused the Debian Bug report #859934,
regarding enable captive portal checking by default
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859934: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859934
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Source: network-manager
Version: 1.6.2-3
Severity: wishlist
Filing this issue to get the discussion started.
I recently noticed that NetworkManager as distributed by Debian does
not do captive portal checks by default. I.e., when using an Airport
WiFi (or similar), users are left in the dark about how to connect to
the internet. Given that more and more websites go https-only, users
will just be presented with a hard-to-understand error message about
security issues.
I think having NetworkManager detect captive portals is a clear
improvement in user experience.
In technical terms:
• You can check what NetworkManager thinks of your connectivity using
e.g. “nmcli networking connectivity”, which will result in either
“full” or “portal”.
• In Debian, regardless of the network type, I always see “full”,
because we don’t specify the connectivity.uri setting.
• Fedora ships the following configuration fragment to enable
connectivity checking:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/contrib/fedora/rpm/20-connectivity-fedora.conf
• Not all frontends make use of the connectivity status. E.g.,
nm-applet does not seem to do anything, whereas I’m told that GNOME
shell will make use of the status.
Aside from the technicalities of enabling the feature, there are a
couple of open questions to answer:
1. Does enabling connectivity checking pose a privacy issue? No user
data is transmitted in the connectivity checks, but merely making
such a request implies that the user is running a Debian(-based)
operating system with NetworkManager.
2. I’m assuming the ideal URL to configure as connectivity.uri is a
Debian-specific URI (as opposed to re-using Fedora’s), and that URI
would likely point to a vhost configured on Debian’s static
mirroring infrastructure. Extrapolating from network-manager’s
71874 popcon votes and a default connectivity check interval of 300
seconds, we’d place an additional load of at least 239
requests/second on our infrastructure. Are we equipped to handle
this load now and in the future? Note that we could easily disable
the feature by removing the DNS record of a single-purpose vhost
for this feature (e.g. nm-connectivity-check.debian.org).
I’d be happy to talk to DSA to get point ② clarified, but I’m not
quite sure who can help with clarifying point ①. Any thoughts?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel, arm64
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: network-manager
Source-Version: 1.8.0-3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
network-manager, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <[email protected]> (supplier of updated network-manager package)
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 23:49:46 +0200
Source: network-manager
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Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 1.8.0-3
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>
Description:
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libnm0 - GObject-based client library for NetworkManager
network-manager - network management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
network-manager-config-connectivity-debian - NetworkManager configuration to
enable connectivity checking
network-manager-dev - network management framework (development files)
Closes: 729783 859934
Changes:
network-manager (1.8.0-3) experimental; urgency=medium
.
[ Rico Tzschichholz ]
* Enable vala bindings support
.
[ Michael Biebl ]
* Enable connectivity checking functionality.
Provide a new package called network-manager-config-connectivity-debian
which can be installed to enable NetworkManager's connectivity checking
functionality. This is particularly useful for captive portal detection.
(Closes: #729783, #859934)
* Reload NetworkManager after installing
network-manager-config-connectivity-debian
* Drop obsolete migration code
* Stop reloading dbus after installing network-manager.
Nowadays this is done automatically by dbus via dpkg file triggers.
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