Bug#789698: network: No longer creates user connections for unprivileged users

[Michael Biebl]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:41:02 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: gnome-control-center
> Version: 1:3.8.3-3
> Severity: important
> 
> In wheezy we added 11_network_user_connections.patch so unprivileged
> users could create new network connections without having to provide
> admin privileges.
> This patch was dropped when 3.8 was merged from experimental.
> 
> We should restore this patch and forward port it to 3.16 and consider
> fixing this for jessie as well.

Attached is the old patch for 3.4.
It doesn't apply anymore to 3.16 and needs to be forwarded ported and we
should reopen the discussion to get this merged upstream.


Michael


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