On 21/11/11 18:28, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le dimanche 20 novembre 2011, à 01:33 +0100, Sven Burmeister a écrit :
Am Samstag, 19. November 2011, 16:31:57 schrieb James Knott:
Sven Burmeister wrote:
Read the bug reports I posted, the issue is known. Root is only needed for creating the connection because it is saved outside user-space. Connecting however works without root password. As owner of my computers, it's not a problem to enter the root password. However, it is a serious problem in corporate environments, where a user, who likely won't have the root password, will not be able to use WiFi at home or elsewhere. It's an extremely *STOOPID* design. I think it does make sense to be able to restrict users to not be able to add more network configs. Whether it should be default is debatable. But allowing everybody to add connections and thus working around the connections set-up by the admin can also be a security risk for corporate IT.
I'm not sure but there should be a policy-kit setting somewhere to allow everybody to create connections. I think it's something like putting
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own auth_admin:auth_admin:yes org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system auth_admin:auth_admin:yes
in /etc/polkit-default-privs.local and then run /sbin/set_polkit_default_privs.
Vincent
Gentlemen, While you are debating as to what to do where and to whom to stop this Authorisation Required message thingie, I am being bombarded every few minutes with this message. Suddenly, today, I started to get this message <there it goes again! damn thing!> for no reason at all. What needs to be done to get rid of this pest, please? I am running the now-officially-released 32-bit oS 12.1 - with KDE4.7.3 and kernel 3.1.1 - which means that I should be posting this message in Help and not Factory; but I accidentally stumbled on your exchanges which is why I am writing this here. So, will what Vintent states (above) rid me of this pesky pop-up message from (?)NetworkManager? Thanks. BC -- Diapers and politicians should be changed often; both for the same reason. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org