[Mageia-dev] Problem with NetworkManager and system wide connections

Mon Oct 15 11:18:30 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Sander Lepik at 15/10/12 09:47 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hey!
+> 
+> I have some very stupid problem on Mageia 2 with NM. I created system
+> wide connection so that it gets connected at boot time. Now if wifi
+> happens to drop for some reason, NM won't reconnect and asks for *root*
+> password. Search results so long show that i'm not the only one having
+> that problem. And some suggest to add my user to network group. I think
+> it's a bad idea and in Mageia we have solved such problems better. Any
+> ideas how can i avoid that root password prompt?
+
+Hmm, it's a polkit auth dialog if i'm not mistaken. I've never had to
+enter the root password, just my user password, but I guess if it's a
+system wide connection then the root password makes sense here.
+
+We could of course tweak the default polkit policy here to not require
+that, but is that wise in and off itself? e.g. you wouldn't want a
+student to reconfigure the terminals in a university network without
+authorisation. It should likely be tied to security levels in some capacity.
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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