[Bug 713639] New: NetworkManager: broken privilege handling
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Summary: NetworkManager: broken privilege handling
Classification: openSUSE
Product: openSUSE 12.1
Version: Factory
Platform: All
OS/Version: Other
Status: NEW
Severity: Major
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Network
AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
ReportedBy: lnussel@novell.com
QAContact: qa@suse.de
CC: holler@nefkom.info, dimstar@opensuse.org,
bruno@ioda-net.ch, vuntz@novell.com,
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Ludwig Nussel
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Stephan Kulow
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Li Bin
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Ludwig Nussel
So I'm still not understand your issue clearly, what's the wrong dialogs,
Try it out then you'll see.
And I viewed the bgo which in comment #2, so the workaround is let the WPA2 enterprise network use the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own while not org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system, so that it wouldn't need to require PK authentication, right?
No. See the NM mailinglist for an analysis: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-September/msg00216.h... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Ludwig Nussel
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Li Bin
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Ludwig Nussel
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Sven Burmeister
just to confirm my understanding, it is expected/normal for Networkmanager to request for root privileges before connecting to wireless access point? (If memory does not fail me, believe that root privileges is not required in 11.2 or some other distribution.)
No. Creating needs root privileges because the connection is not stored within you user's folders but within the base-system. Connecting does not need root privileges. The really bad thing about it is though that AFAIK formatting / and keeping /home will lose your connections. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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I still fail to see the logic of this decision. There are many laptop users out there that have no admin rights, but need to set up connections while on the road. You can't expect them to call the system admin for this each time they have to connect to a wireless system. This makes the whole networkmanager a useless system with a lot of hassle.
Your admin should be able to set policykit's settings to something he thinks is sensible. If he wants you do be able to create connections, he can. Since this is a bug report, please keep discussion to the mailinglist, e.g. opensuse@. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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