This is because the "Available to all users" checkbox needs to be unticked when the connection is created. Once it's already there; you will need administrative access to change it since opening up the dialog could allow you to see the WLAN password.
As an alternative; edit the connection as the user that created it (the administrator user), or ask an administrator to toggle the setting. If you mean creating a new wireless network from the menu items when you click nm-applet; then this policy has always been in place: to create system-wide (available to all users) connections, you need administrator rights. What changed is that connections are available to all users by default, because we create them in a different manner which is much easier to maintain and above all, allows the connections to be saved (backed up) and restored. This is not going to change. If you need to have access to create such connections, you may wish to either give yourself administrator access if this is your machine and a conscious decision, or ask the administrator to adjust the policykit policies on the affected system. The policy to change would be: "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system" (which means Modify network connections for all users) It can be changed by adding a file to /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/ with contents such as: [Changing system-wide NetworkManager connections] Identity=unix-user:myusername Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system ResultActive=yes See also /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1045972 Title: Administrator password for WLAN-connections? Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: In Ubuntu 10.04 a normal user could connect to new WLANs. In 12.04 (with Unity) a question for admin password comes up with this action. I think, connecting to new WLANs should stay a right of normal users. I cannot be with them everytime, or I cannot give them the admin password. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1045972/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
