Why is this targetted to 13.04 beta 1? Should I get that the priority for this has changed?
What are the specific use cases that changed the importance for this bug? Perhaps it would be possible to special-case USB net devices and avoid them autoconnecting, forcing a user to click on a connection to enable it, but I'll need to look at the code with more attention to figure this one out. -- 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/802782 Title: Please add NetworkManager option not to auto-enable new network devices Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” source package in Precise: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” source package in Quantal: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” source package in Raring: Confirmed Bug description: This is a feature request. It would be nice if Network Manager could be configured such that it won't automatically attempt to use new network devices attached to the system. Here's the reasoning. My team manages a large fleet of enterprise desktops. We've had a number of cases where a user plugs a USB NIC into their computer, and Network Manager helpfully configures the new network interface and runs dhclient on it. And if the DHCP response is answered, you get a new default route, new resolv.conf, etc. In a couple cases this was caused by plugging in an Android phone that had USB tethering turned on, and I think we even had one case where plugging in a USB GPS did this. None of the cases involved the user actually intending to use the device as a network interface. We could blacklist the usbnet module, but there are legitimate cases where we want to allow USB networking. It would be so much better if we could get Network Manager not to use these new devices that have shown up until the user configures them. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/802782/+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
