Comment 27 for bug 964705

Benji, I believe your patch is merely a work-around and doesn't follow the intended behavior as outlined earlier in this thread. Your patch seems to allow non-admin users to update the global settings, which I don't think is the correct solution.

I believe a proper solution would be that for an admin user an added network is automatically added to the system wide settings, but for a non-admin user it should merely create a temporary connection for that particular user. This shouldn't need any additional priviledges since the global configuration wouldn't have to be updated, and the user would as expected be able to connect to a wireless network without contacting their system administrator.

From reading this thread I believe the solution would be as "easy" as to to only make "Availbale for all users" the default if the user is in the admin group, if not the box should be automatically unchecked and there would be no need for an administrator password.