Hi all, This is still a problem in Eoan Ermine 19.10.
And I really don't understand why this has so low priority. I have been able to trace this problem back to 2012!!!?! And it is really blocking ordinary users from working with a Ubuntu laptop. My usecase: I just installed Ubuntu 19.10 on a new laptop for my wife. I am the administrator, my wife is a normal user. She is a writer, and likes to take the laptop to coffee shops, libraries etc. But she can not connect to wifi in these places without my adminstrator password!!!?! And worst of all, I haven't even be able to find a suitable workaround.:-( On the previous laptop I had to tell her the password over the phone every time she joined a new hotspot. in 2019, I would really like to make a fresh start on this new laptop and give her a proper linux-user experience. Security issues can not be the reason. I can even connect to any public wifi on my company laptop with Windows 10. Even our company IT security permits that! Surely Ubuntu should be able to allow this on a private laptop. Is this the reason Linux is only on 1% of the PCs? If only tech-savy people can do the ordinary operations on a laptop with an admin password. I hope this can get solved quickly. Kind regards, Bert Haverkamp Regards, Bert -- 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/1102354 Title: Impossible for non-administrator users to connect to new wireless networks Status in network-manager-applet package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have configured a laptop for a non tech-savvy member of my familiy, and therefore not given his user any administrative rights. It is impossible for him to connect to a new wireless networks, since that requires administrative priviledges. This makes the laptop more or less useless for him. I believe the root cause is that it by default tries to save the network connection and make it avaiable for all users, which requires administrative priviledges. Since it is a non-administrator user that is trying to connec to the network it should not try to add it for all users. Problem has been reproduced on several machines running Ubuntu 12.10, it can easily be triggered: 1. ( Create a user with a standard account ) 2. Log in as a normal users 3. Try to connect to a wireless network - you will now be asked for the password of the administrator account, which the user of course doesn't have. Note, the bug in step 3 will only trigger if another user hasn't previously connected to that network, because then it would already be stored in the system global network settings :~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 :~$ apt-cache policy network-manager network-manager: Installed: 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 Candidate: 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 Version table: *** 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1102354/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
