On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:29:07AM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:21:21 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > I seem to remember newer NM versions (in experimental) have changed the > > default to be the other way round, on the basis that network connections are > > system-wide, so their configuration should be system-wide too. > > That's what I tend to think as well. > In the bugreport, I first thought about per-user configuration (something like > ~/.config/wicd/...), but then I realised that it's non-sense, since network > connections are system-wide AFAIK.
OTOH, credentials supplied to connect to a network can be user data. Indeed, having them as such means they can be protected (by using a keyring scheme like gnome-keyring, for example). Also encrypted $HOME is more common than encrypted /, I expect. "multi-user" and "concurrent use" are different things. If I loan my laptop to my brother, we are not concurrently changing system-wide network state; however, I may not want him to read my WPA passphrase and/or VPN connection details out of a file in /etc. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110509151316.ga10...@deckard.alcopop.org
