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Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #26 from Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx> 2011-11-19 
17:15:14 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> 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.

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