Benji, I believe your patch is merely a work-around and doesn't follow the intended behavior as outlined earlier in this thread. Your patch seems to allow non-admin users to update the global settings, which I don't think is the correct solution.
I believe a proper solution would be that for an admin user an added network is automatically added to the system wide settings, but for a non-admin user it should merely create a temporary connection for that particular user. This shouldn't need any additional priviledges since the global configuration wouldn't have to be updated, and the user would as expected be able to connect to a wireless network without contacting their system administrator. >From reading this thread I believe the solution would be as "easy" as to to only make "Availbale for all users" the default if the user is in the admin group, if not the box should be automatically unchecked and there would be no need for an administrator password. -- 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: Opinion 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 : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
