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

Niv Sardi xaiki at evilgiggle.com
Fri May 4 16:47:17 UTC 2012


nice,

there are quite a few 'don-t-annoy-users-too-much' things in that package.

should we add netdev to the groups and push this into the nm package ?

or do we want to look into more of this and get
policykit-desktop-priviledges all in ?

On May 4, 2012 1:28 PM, "Michael Biebl" <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
> universe are pointed away from Earth?
>
>
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