Public bug reported:
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.
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Network Manager option to avoid auto-enable of new network devices
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