Public bug reported: When a standard (non-administrator user) selects a WiFi network using the applet, the applet attempts to create a system connection, instead of a user connection, and thus it asks for an administrator user's password.
On the other hand, if the same standard user opens the WiFi settings and selects a network there, no admin password is requested, as the connection is created for this user only, not system-wide. This is a workaround I discovered recently (see https://askubuntu.com/a/1163852/375543). This has bitten me several times, as I hand out laptops for new users; when they get home, they try to connect to their network and as I have no other way to help them (before I discovered the workaround), I ended up giving them the administrator password. The applet should not attempt to create a system-wide connection for users that are unable to do it. There is no security implication to implement this, as the users are able to create a connection anyway with the workaround mentioned above. But the improvement in terms of UX would be huge. ** Affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- 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/1869225 Title: nm-applet should not attempt to create system-wide WiFi connections for regular users Status in network-manager-applet package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When a standard (non-administrator user) selects a WiFi network using the applet, the applet attempts to create a system connection, instead of a user connection, and thus it asks for an administrator user's password. On the other hand, if the same standard user opens the WiFi settings and selects a network there, no admin password is requested, as the connection is created for this user only, not system-wide. This is a workaround I discovered recently (see https://askubuntu.com/a/1163852/375543). This has bitten me several times, as I hand out laptops for new users; when they get home, they try to connect to their network and as I have no other way to help them (before I discovered the workaround), I ended up giving them the administrator password. The applet should not attempt to create a system-wide connection for users that are unable to do it. There is no security implication to implement this, as the users are able to create a connection anyway with the workaround mentioned above. But the improvement in terms of UX would be huge. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1869225/+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
