We have more than 300 notebooks with 12.04 LTS up-to-date. Users aren't sudoers and we made the following change...
At:
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy
Under the key
<action id="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system">
we changed the line:
<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
to:
<allow_active>yes</allow_active>
This permits to configure system connections without asking for the administrator's password.
However, we needed to upgrade network-manager and modemmanager for using some mobile broadband USB devices.
We upgraded from https://launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive/trunk PPA and we lost our policy.
I agree if the user is not sudoer can't (by default) change system connections. But upgrades should test any changes made in policies.
Regards,
Josep Pujadas-Jubany
We have more than 300 notebooks with 12.04 LTS up-to-date. Users aren't sudoers and we made the following change...
At:
/usr/share/ polkit- 1/actions/ org.freedesktop .NetworkManager .policy
Under the key
<action id="org. freedesktop. NetworkManager. settings. modify. system" >
we changed the line:
<allow_ active> auth_admin_ keep</allow_ active>
to:
<allow_ active> yes</allow_ active>
This permits to configure system connections without asking for the administrator's password.
However, we needed to upgrade network-manager and modemmanager for using some mobile broadband USB devices.
We upgraded from https:/ /launchpad. net/~network- manager/ +archive/ trunk PPA and we lost our policy.
I agree if the user is not sudoer can't (by default) change system connections. But upgrades should test any changes made in policies.
Regards,
Josep Pujadas-Jubany