https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680140
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680140#c7
--- Comment #7 from Ludwig Nussel
(In reply to comment #5)
(In reply to comment #4)
Also, this polkit-default-privs sounds wrong:
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own auth_admin
This means that I have to enter the root password to modify my own connections (not the system-wide ones). Do you want me to file a new bug for that?
I thought NM 0.9 now finally makes all connections system connections?
By default, yes. But I think this is wrong and I'm trying to get this changed upstream, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646187#c12 (an example where this is wrong is the Novell wireless network, which uses the authentication data is really per-user, and it's wrong to create a system-wide connection for that).
Ugh. Not so fast please :-) per-user connections do not actually exist. That is something NM made up for years. Network connections, nameserver settings, routing tables etc are all system wide. I'm glad to see those broken user connections gone. I agree that storing the credentials alongside the connection settings in plaintext in e.g. /etc/ might not be a good idea in every case though. I'd expect NM to simply prompt the user who activated the connection for missing credentials then. That's how smpppd works for example.
Anyways, setting something to 'yes' should get a security review first.
Nod, makes sense. Are you happy to keep this in this bug?
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