On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 00:37 +0100, dennis knorr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 31.01.2017 20:07, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 17:29 +0100, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I would like to disable autoconnect for new wifi connections by
> > > default.
> > > I prefer to control when my device is connected to public/shared
> > > wifi
> > > which identity cannot be determined ultimately (aka fake networks
> > > with
> > > well known ssid).
> > 
> > NM will never connect to a network that you have not at least once
> > connected to.  So if you never pick the network from the menu, NM
> > will
> > never automatically connect to it.

Dan, are you sure that is the case?

If you for example create a new connection with autoconnect=yes, it
will start autoconnecting right away.


Thomas

> 
> But this would be a good thing, if the administrator could deploy
> network-configurations and say: "autoconnect to these networks, if
> available".
> 
> We deploy several networks preconfigured and that would be very
> useful.
> Is there a deeper design-decision behind not doing it?
> 
> It is not used as an safety-mechanism, but as an convenience
> mechanism,
> that the user does not has to decide or manually interact with the
> network configuration.
> 
> Dennis

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