We have more than 300 notebooks with 12.04 LTS up-to-date. Users aren't sudoers and we made the following change...
At: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy Under the key <action id="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system"> we changed the line: <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> to: <allow_active>yes</allow_active> This permits to configure system connections without asking for the administrator's password. However, we needed to upgrade network-manager and modemmanager for using some mobile broadband USB devices. We upgraded from https://launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive/trunk PPA and we lost our policy. I agree if the user is not sudoer can't (by default) change system connections. But upgrades should test any changes made in policies. Regards, Josep Pujadas-Jubany -- 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/964705 Title: System policy prevents modification of network settings for all users Status in NetworkManager: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” package in Debian: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” package in openSUSE: Fix Released Bug description: This seems like a regression? The screen shot is at http://thesii.org/Screenshot.jpg The nearest link I can find is from the forum area at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11467777 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.3.995+git201203152001.04b2a74-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Date: Sun Mar 25 19:36:45 2012 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120323) NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/964705/+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