[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#808162: Bug#808162: NetworkManager does not allow remote management

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Marius!

Am 16.12.2015 um 18:18 schrieb Marius Vollmer:
> the NetworkManager polkit policy in Debian does not allow changing or
> adding connections from a remote session, such as a ssh or Cockpit
> login.
> 
> The default upstream policy explicitly allows this.  See
> 
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145646
> 
> for some discussion.
> 
> In the bug report above, the action that needed adjustement was
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control".  In Debian,
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system" would need to be
> allowed for "any".

I don't think we should allow
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system for everyone.

Why is auth_admin(_keep) not sufficient here?

Regards,
Michael
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