Still a problem in Bionic Beaver development. In the past you could work around it by going into network properties, and manually adding a network, being careful to uncheck the "make it available for all users" option. I couldn't work around it in Bionic.
But the point is that you shouldn't have to "work around" anything. A normal user should be able to follow the simple process of selecting the wireless and being prompted to connect and save the password just for himself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1102354 Title: Impossible for non-administrator users to connect to new wireless networks Status in network-manager-applet package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have configured a laptop for a non tech-savvy member of my familiy, and therefore not given his user any administrative rights. It is impossible for him to connect to a new wireless networks, since that requires administrative priviledges. This makes the laptop more or less useless for him. I believe the root cause is that it by default tries to save the network connection and make it avaiable for all users, which requires administrative priviledges. Since it is a non-administrator user that is trying to connec to the network it should not try to add it for all users. Problem has been reproduced on several machines running Ubuntu 12.10, it can easily be triggered: 1. ( Create a user with a standard account ) 2. Log in as a normal users 3. Try to connect to a wireless network - you will now be asked for the password of the administrator account, which the user of course doesn't have. Note, the bug in step 3 will only trigger if another user hasn't previously connected to that network, because then it would already be stored in the system global network settings :~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 :~$ apt-cache policy network-manager network-manager: Installed: 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 Candidate: 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 Version table: *** 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1102354/+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
