[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642136: network-manager: Connecting to a wifi network requires system privileges

[Florian Schlichting]

tags 642136 + patch
thanks

I agree with Joey Hess: "Available to alle users" should not be the
default for new wifi connections, so that unprivileged users can
connect to new networks without needing a sudo or root password, or
additional policykit privileges.

The attached patch to the network-manager-applet (!) source modifies
nm-applet such that a new wifi connection created through the applet
belongs to the user, and not the system. If a wifi connection is to be
made available to all users, this has to be done in a separate step,
e.g. using nm-connection-editor.

I've tested this successfully with an open and a WPA2 secured network,
but I haven't had a chance to check if 802.1x networks have additional
settings that need to be set to "agent owned".

Florian
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