[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#681142: Bug#681142: network-manager: remember the user's authentication, like sudo

[Michael Biebl]

On 11.07.2012 00:05, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.9.4.0-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> If I right-click => "Edit connections" then select "wireless", then
> select a network, then click "edit".  I get two problems here:
> - 2 boxes pop up, one for the edits, one for authentication.
>   Depending on the time of the day, either the edit or the password
>   box gets to be on top, so I sometimes have to look for the password
>   box underneath the other, to be able to authenticate.
> - the authentication box always pops up, even if I went through the
>   exact same steps 5 seconds earlier.  "sudo" handles this better by
>   remembering if the user authenticated recently.

That's basically how policykit works. There is not really anything that
can be done in NM about that.




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