No, this is a bug or design flaw. When you create an unprivileged user, that user does not have access to ifdown by default. Of course not! Then why should the user have access to shutdown a network interface using a GUI tool? It makes no sense. However, this bug has nothing to do with network-manager. nm-applet _should_ be able to deactivate network. However, an unprivileged user should not have access to run it. What surprises me here, is that nm-applet doesn't use ifdown for that task. I have discovered other privilege-related issues and will file a separate bug on that.
-- network-manager allows an unprivileged user to disconnect the network from xdmcp login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104173 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
