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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.

Of course, there is.  NM and PolicyKit teams should be willing to work
together to resolve whatever problem comes up, right?  So if you agree
it's a problem, please try and figure out with the PolicyKit guys how it
can be resolved.


        Stefan