This still needs a FFE though, so it can be landed in Trusty before it
makes it into Precise.
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Raring)
Status: In Progress => Triaged
** Also affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Saucy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)
Status: In Progress
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Saucy)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Saucy)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Saucy)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Raring)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: In Progress => New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1116317
Title:
[ffe] allow option to create user connections by default
Status in NetworkManager:
Incomplete
Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “network-manager-applet” source package in Precise:
Triaged
Status in “network-manager-applet” source package in Quantal:
Triaged
Status in “network-manager-applet” source package in Raring:
Invalid
Status in “network-manager-applet” source package in Saucy:
Triaged
Status in “network-manager-applet” source package in Trusty:
New
Bug description:
NetworkManager needs a setting that makes it create new connections as
user connections by default.
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system can be used to
allow access, however, you don't always want to have users edit system
connections.
[Impact]
Before 12.04, new connections in NetworkManager were user-connections.
Organisations could use this to lock down certain connections to system
connections.
Today, non-admin users are shown a "Please enter root password" prompt
when trying to connect to an unknown (wireless) network. Which is
undesirable as these users may not know the root password.
A workaround is to grant the users
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system' access,
however this may be desirable as corporate networks may be defined in
system-connections that adminstators may not want users to change.
[Test Case]
* Today: Connect to a new wireless network as a non-admin user, see
that a password dialog is displayed.
* With patch, set a PolicyKit rule of:
"""
[Adding or changing system-wide NetworkManager connections]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system
ResultActive=no
[Adding or changing user-owned NetworkManager connections]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own
ResultActive=yes
"""
...connect to a new wireless network as a non-admin user and see in
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections that a user-connection instead
of system one has been defined, no root password should be requested
either.
[Regression Potential]
None, as we do not touch the default configuration for 12.04 LTS.
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