Comment 19 for bug 964705

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