It looks like the "modify.own" action references are no longer there, right? Could you please edit the description to say this?
Please add DEP-5 headers to the patch and help prod it along upstream if you think it's right. Other than that, I'm minded to ack this. Please ping me when you've made these changes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/1116317/+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
