[Bug 1426923] Re: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through wpa_supplicant

2015-03-03 Thread Jonas G. Drange
** Also affects: indicator-network (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: wpasupplicant (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Summary changed: - Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through wpa_supplicant + Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a

[Bug 1426923] Re: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through wpa_supplicant

2015-03-02 Thread Jamie Strandboge
Jonas asked me to take a look at the security implications of this. Some observations: * on touch, /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.touch.NetworkManager.pkla allows anyone in the 'sudo' group to access all of NetworkManager. This is not ideal but was the decision taken wh

[Bug 1426923] Re: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through wpa_supplicant

2015-03-02 Thread Jonas G. Drange
** Description changed: Background: - AP hotspots are currently provisioned like this [1]. I don't precisely know why we need to poke the driver, but AP hotspots on krillin fails without it. + To do Wi-Fi hotspots on krillin, we need to poke wifi by doing a call to wpa_supplicant's (undocument

[Bug 1426923] Re: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through wpa_supplicant

2015-03-02 Thread Jonas G. Drange
I'm currently only succeeding with the following policy: Being more specific, e.g. adding interface and send_member, gives me errors that I should not get: Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Error return with empty body:

[Bug 1426923] Re: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through wpa_supplicant

2015-03-02 Thread Jonas G. Drange
** No longer affects: dbus (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1426923 Title: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through wpa_supplicant To manage notificat

[Bug 1426923] Re: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through wpa_supplicant

2015-03-02 Thread Jonas G. Drange
** Also affects: wpasupplicant (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1426923 Title: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmwa