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

[Garrett McLean]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.2.0-1
Followup-For: Bug #645815

I have an (I think related) issue which infuriates the average (not
technically-inclined) desktop user to no end. Not only are you forced to create
system-wide connections, but these connections (stored in /etc/NetworkManager
/system-connections) are not even used by NM on reboot! So the experience for
users like myself is:

1. Add wireless network, needlessly authenticate as root/sudoer
...
2. Reboot
3. Repeat

I have now 8 files in my /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections folder (Auto
Sisko, Auto Sisko 1, Auto Sisko 2, etc.) the contents of which are identical.
I'm happy to file a separate bug report but I have a strong hunch the root
problem is related to the one this report is describing.

Cheers,
Garrett



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113
ii  dbus                   1.4.16-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.1.1-P1-17
ii  libc6                  2.13-24
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.30.2-4
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.14-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-3
ii  libnl1                 1.1-7
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.2.0-1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.2.0-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.104-1
ii  libuuid1               2.19.1-5
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28
ii  udev                   175-3
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-6

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.59-4
ii  iptables      1.4.12.2-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5-1
ii  policykit-1   0.104-1
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

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