please reopen if this issue still exists in Ubuntu 12.04
** Changed in: ubuntu-indicator-mods
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Title:
User-defined connection names don't appear as choices in drop-down
menu
Status in Ubuntu network, Bluetooth, keyboard menus:
Incomplete
Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
In the "Network Connections" dialog it is possible for me to set my
own custom "Connection Names". One set, networks appear using these
names in the Network Connections dialog.
Now, I click on the nm tray applet and it shows me a list of networks,
but the networks are named based on their SSID's - not based on the
names that I've supposedly given them!
This can be very frustrating if you live in a place where everyone's
network is named "linksys".
Insofar as this presents the user with potentially confusing or
ambiguous connection options it allows an attacker to set up their own
network mirroring the existing network's SSID and thus encourage
illegitimate connections. Presenting the user's own defined names is
one way of avoiding this (especially if these were say, italicized, to
better show that they are trusted networks).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Tue Nov 10 22:38:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
IpRoute:
134.84.223.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 134.84.223.168
metric 2
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
default via 134.84.223.254 dev eth0 proto static
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RfKill:
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
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