network-manager unmanagable by non-root

[Alex]

I'm seeing an issue where nm-applet becomes unmanagable once pam.d has sssd/ldap enabled. I think i tracked the issue to a Debian reported bug - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;bug=743159. Could you please confirm if this is a bug that is going to be pushed to Ubuntu? (I'm on 14.04)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2218758 is where I posted my issue I found and what I tried.