[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#710448: network-manager: unnecessary request of root passwd when connecting to hidden wlan

[Klaus]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.0-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Not sure whether this is a duplicate of bug #642136?

When connecting to a hidden wlan (nm-applet --> left click --> Connect to Hidden Wi-fi Network)
NM asks for the root passwd on the pretext that a system setting will be changed:
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system

This is not necessary, since connecting to such a network can be completed as a normal user.
Indeed, selecting "Cancel" in the pop-up frame allows me to type in the (in my case) WPA2 
credentials and the connection gets established.

The connection was used before, and there is a corresponding file in
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
In nm-applet it's selected to "Connect Automatically" and
"All users may connect ..."

Kind regards
Klaus

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.6.10-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-7
ii  libc6                  2.17-3
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.10-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100.2-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.36.1-2build1
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-7.2
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.21-1
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-3
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.4
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian11
ii  udev                   175-7.2
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-3+b2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.66-3
ii  iptables      1.4.18-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5.2.0-2
ii  policykit-1   0.105-3
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5.1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla'

-- no debconf information