[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642136: Bug#642136: default policy

[Michael Biebl]

On 04.05.2012 18:09, Niv Sardi wrote:
> 
> I think we all agree that from a user point of view we can't have a
> password required to connect to a wireless network.
> 
> On my side I get an extra bit of annoyance, as @home when I'm far from
> the AP NM will try to connect, fail (because of the bad link) assume
> it's because the password is wrong (wtf?), ask for the password again
> (hence), ask for my user password, then the wifi password, then my user
> password ...quite annoying.

Ubuntu has a separate package called policykit-desktop-privileges [1],
which ships a file
 /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla
containing the following entry (among others)

[Adding or changing system-wide NetworkManager connections]
Identity=unix-group:admin;unix-group:sudo
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system
ResultActive=yes

This means, "admin" users, i.e. users which are in group sudo or admin,
won't get prompted when modifying system connections, this includes
creating new wireless connections.

This is not a perfect solution, yet maybe something we can/should
consider for Debian, too.


Michael

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/policykit-desktop-privileges
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