[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642136: Bug#642136: Bug#642136: Bug#642136: network-manager: Connecting to a wifi network requires org.freedesktop.NM.settings.modify.system privileges

Vincent Bernat bernat at debian.org
Tue Sep 20 18:26:06 UTC 2011


OoO En  cette fin de matinée  radieuse du mardi 20  septembre 2011, vers
11:36, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> disait :

> Granting org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system to every active
> user means that they will be able to read the Wireless PSK without admin
> privileges, so I'm not convinced yet that this is actually a good idea.
> An alternative could be, to make wireless connections not available to everyone
> by default and doing so requires explicit configuration.

How could this be configured? I  think this should be the default but it
is only my opinion. Being able  to configure like this on my system will
be fine by me.

Thanks!
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Vincent Bernat ☯ http://vincent.bernat.im

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