Feature changed by: Li Bin (BinLi) Feature #305657, revision 25 Title: finer grained PolicyKit support for Networkmanager openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Desirable Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Description: NetworkManager currently only supports one PolicyKit privilege. That is whether a user is allowed to modify administrator defined connections or not. There is no way to disallow users to define their own network configurations. NetworkManager should at least support one additional PolicyKit privilege that defines whether or not users are allowed to bring their own network configuration or whether they mere are allowed to use administrator defined ones. Use Case: - disallow workers on centrally administered machines to configure different network settings - protect home users that only ever connect to a few well known nets from accidently changing their setup Discussion: #1: Matthias Nagorni (mnagorni) (2009-08-21 14:26:22) If this can be done with little effort I would be even tempted to rate it Mandatory. #2: Stefan Behlert (sbehlert) (2009-08-25 16:37:57) Alex, is there soemone on your team who could look at that? MAybe with some support form Tambet? #3: Li Bin (binli) (2009-08-26 05:58:01) I and lance wang would like to take care of it. We still don't know the requirement clearly. 1. disallow workers on centrally administered machines to configure different network settings The workers mean the users in administered machines? Does it right that when workers configure network settings it prompt they are no permission? If so I thought we could change the PolicyKit's configuration file to complete it. 2. protect home users that only ever connect to a few well known nets from accidently changing their setup How to distinguish home users from workers? Does it mean don't allow the user to configure the other users connections? #4: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) (2009-08-26 08:40:53) (reply to #3) Currently there's only org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system. modify, introduce something like org.freedesktop.network-manager- settings.user.modify so NM can determine whether it should accept user settings. #5: JP Rosevear (jproseve) (2009-08-26 17:06:51) (reply to #3) My suggestion would be to look at something like the following: org. freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.modify org.freedesktop. network-manager-settings.system.add org.freedesktop.network-manager- settings.system.delete and the same for .user - you may even want to specifically allow or disallow adding for specific network types like wired, wireless, etc. You probably also want to have the ability to enable/disable wireless in general and enable/disable networking covered. You can default all of these to the current settings, but adding these would allow more lockdown opportunities. #6: Li Bin (binli) (2009-08-31 11:22:12) Well, We'll works on this feature in this week, know about the PolicyKit and NetworkManager, write the patch if time is okay. Tambet, Do you have any idea about this feature? #7: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) (2009-08-31 18:40:51) (reply to #6) Might worth looking at NM 0.8 (git master), it supports the latest polkit-1 and it should be released before 11.2. Maybe some of this features were introduced. #8: Tambet Ingo (tambet) (2009-09-01 09:40:05) (reply to #7) NM 0.8 will not be out before 11.2, it'll be out for the next Fedora release which will happen after 11.2. Also, current git master does not have any work for this feature, it's just been converted to use the newer, incompatible polkit API. #9: Tambet Ingo (tambet) (2009-09-01 09:43:56) (reply to #6) The upstream has been planning on having similar feature for a while now, but no work has been done on it yet. I strongly suggest to have a discussion with the upstream maintainer before any work gets done, otherwise our effort might end up thrown away as soon as upstream implements it. + #10: Li Bin (binli) (2009-09-01 09:14:24) + Yes, I talk with the upstream today, just wait for response. You can + follow it from below link. Thanks! + http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-September/date.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305657