Comment 24 for bug 1404188

QtBearer just runs on top of the system networking, so if the platform specifies it doesn't allow start/stop of interfaces, like the generic bearer plugin, it is allowed to return an error of 'not allowed' or somesuch.

It's the current network-manager bearer plugin that does not take into account security limitations.

That said, a QtBearer plugin could be written using connectivity-api. It would simply supply one configuration "System configuration" or some name and advertise it is not able to start and stop interfaces/connections.

Maybe I will do that today and you guys could use it or not.