A Guest cannot connect easily to a new Wifi network without admin password

[Michel-Ekimia]

When a guest is using its guest session and wants to join a new Wifi network, the administrative rights GUI is shown and the guest just cancel.

this is because (I guess) by default a new network should be available to all users and thus stored in a way that needs admin rights.

A workaround : add manually the Wifi network and uncheck the "available to all users"

note : adding the OEM project because It was a blocking issue for testing an Asus Ubuntu computer presented in a shop.

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

This bug is not relevant to OEM-priority

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jerker Nordh (ajn)]

Same problem (but for all non-admin users):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1102354

[Jerker Nordh (ajn)]

Also related to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/964705

[Jerker Nordh (ajn)]

I don't believe this is a bug of #964705 since that contains alot of other issues aswell, that hasn't been decided whether to fix or not (for Ubuntu, all other projects seems to agree it is a bug).

They have the same root cause, but this issue I think has less controversy as to what the expected behavior is, and shouldn't be left hanging waiting on some form of agreement in #964705

[Michel-Ekimia (michel.ekimia)]

This is still happening on 20.04 today