Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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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:
Confirmed
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.
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