On Mon, 9 May 2011 16:13:16 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > 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.
Or just proper permissions to the user-config directory. :) (I'd avoid adding more dependencies to wicd) > "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. Ok, this makes sense. So I could change the UI so that it provides a "Save for all users" checkbox, that makes it save data to /etc/wicd/, otherwise the data would be saved to ~/.config/wicd/. I just submitted a bug to myself, so I remember to implement this :) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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