System wide proxy settings are not seen by users who didn't first initiated the proxy config

Bug #1658112 reported by Eric Desrochers
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unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

System wide proxy settings are not seen by users who didn't first initiated the proxy configuration.

If the initial configuration has been made by "user1", only this user will show the configuration in network applet, the other users won't see anything.

Reproducer ;
1. Set proxy with UI on user1 (without protocol in front of it (e.g. http://, https://,....)
Method : Manual
HTTP Proxy : test.com Port : 8080
HTTPS Proxy : test.com Port : 9090

Click "Apply system wide"

2. Create user user2
3. Logout user1
4. Login as user2
5. Look configuration:

- Network applet won't change, remaining set to 'none'
- "gsettings get org.gnome.system.proxy mode" return 'none' instead of 'manual'
- "dconf read /system/proxy/mode" return nothing.

The only test I found to validate was the following:

- Check proxy variables :
$ echo $http_proxy
$ echo $https_proxy
$ echo $ftp_proxy

* You should see the value created by user1.

- Try web browser and validate it goes through the proxy

Eric Desrochers (slashd)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Mark Thomas (markthomas) wrote :

Confirmed.

Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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