[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#645815: Bug#645815: network-manager-gnome: Should not create system-wide connections by default

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 645815 network-manager
forcemerge 642136 645815
thanks

Am 18.10.2011 21:55, schrieb Julien Valroff:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 0.9.0-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> nm-connection-editor creates system-wide connections by default. This forces
> the active user to authenticate as an administrative user or as root.
> 
> The previous behaviour (I'd say before 0.9 but not 100% sure) was imho
> correct: standard users could create private connections without needing
> extra rights. The current default behaviour prevents standard users from
> creating any connection, even private.

Not quite true, as you can still create connections in nm-connection-editor
which are not system-wide.
But the new behaviour is definitely annoying.
That said, it is something upstream did purposefully and is most certainly not
going to change.

Please follow up on the existing bug report #642136


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