[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#916187: network-manager-gnome no longer creates system connections for netdev group

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:29:02 -0500 Dean Serenevy <dean at serenevy.net> wrote:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 1.8.18-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Hello, it seems that upstream changes have broken part of
> Allow-to-create-connections-without-admin-privileges.patch (written to
> address bug 696256).
> 
> Upstream commit 0c92debe9 marks all WiFi connections as user
> connections by default, where the Debian patch checks whether the user
> has the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system
> permission and only creates a user connection if the permission check
> fails.
> 
> Unfortunately, the user vs system connection issue has a lot of
> history and the default behavior seems to bounce around as different
> use situations are emphasized. The nice thing about the Debian patch
> is that it solves the problem for multiple use cases, any user in the
> netdev group creates system connections, other users create user-only
> connections.
> 
> I've attached a patch which could be rolled into
> Allow-to-create-connections-without-admin-privileges.patch to restore
> the functionality of that patch. It simply removes the line added by
> upstream which unconditionally marks the connection as a user
> connection, allowing the Debian logic to apply. The other alternative,
> of course, is to remove that patch (entirely or in part) and continue
> using the upstream behavior.
> 
> Our particular usage situation requires less-technical users to create
> a network connecction for system use, so being able to create system
> connections by default significantly eases the burden of our support
> staff.  If connections are not system-wide by default, we have to walk
> each user through the process of checking the "All users may connect
> to this netowrk" box. Therefore, we would definitely prefer that the
> patch be updated rather than just removed.

Thanks for your patch. I'll include it for buster.

In buster +1 I can imagine that we eventually drop our Debian specific
patch. It has been a pain to keep it updated over the years and I'll try
to reduce the diff to upstream.

Regards,
Michael

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