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and subject line Re: Bug#700107: debian-policy: Polkit prevents access to
wireless
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regarding debian-policy: Polkit prevents access to wireless
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Package: debian-policy
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I just performed a fresh install of Wheezy on a netbook. The default security
configuration prevents a user from connecting to a wireless network.
Furthermore, the GNOME interface does not appear to have a GUI to modify users
groups. I can't tell it I am in the netdev, admin, or sudo groups. Based on
what I see in the bug reports, it looks like a bug in the policies.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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Version: 0.9.4.1-3
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:24:36PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 network-manager-gnome
>
> kseise <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I just performed a fresh install of Wheezy on a netbook. The default
> > security configuration prevents a user from connecting to a wireless
> > network. Furthermore, the GNOME interface does not appear to have a GUI
> > to modify users groups. I can't tell it I am in the netdev, admin, or
> > sudo groups. Based on what I see in the bug reports, it looks like a
> > bug in the policies.
>
> Which is not the debian-policy package. :) That's the policy for how
> Debian packages are constructed, not user security policies.
>
> I'm not at all sure what package this sort of bug belongs to, so I'm
> reassigning it to network-manager-gnome, which should at least get it into
> the general ballpark. The network-manager maintainers should have a
> better idea of where specifically it should go.
Thanks Russ for re-assigning.
This particular issue has been fixed in 0.9.4.1-3 [1] and a corresponding
upload of network-manager 0.9.4.0-8.
With NM 0.9 all connections are system-wide by default which requires
admin privileges to create and modify.
We now ship a PolicyKit pkla file in NM which allows members of group
netdev or sudo to administer such system-wide connections without prior
authentication, i.e. the infamous PolicyKit prompt.
Since there are valid cases where you don't want to grant such a
privilege to every user, the latest network-manager-gnome releas now
check if such an authentication is required, and if so, automatically
falls back to user-owned connections, where the secrets are stored in
the user session.
This means, you should never get such a PK prompt anymore, unless you
excplicitly change the settings in nm-connection-editor.
Cheers,
Michael
[1]
http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/network-manager-applet/news/20130106T091750Z.html
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/network-manager/news/20121221T030245Z.html
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