There is a Debian bug concerning the new behavior, prompting for root password every time a user adds a wifi network:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642136 I found it was discussed previously in this thread: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-March/msg00098.html There are probably a lot of users who would like it to work the old way, each time the user connects to some new wifi network, they should not be prompted for the root password. Is there already some fix for this in 0.9.6? Debian has 0.9.4 Or is anyone else contemplating a fix? Various ideas come to mind: a) simply creating a connection (without overwriting or asking to view existing credentials) should not require authentication (but maybe a test to ensure the user is logged in at a physical console) b) some option in NetworkManager.conf to preserve legacy behavior (new connections are per-user by default) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
