Yes, only users who are inside the "admin" group may change the network settings this way. I guess this is a nice feature for people who migrate from windows, but it scares the heck of of me... ;)
BTW: The same thing affects users-admin an all other tools out of gnome- system-tools Isn't it risky to be able to execute all those system tools without getting the necessary rights first? -- [network-admin] network-admin can be run without root-rights https://launchpad.net/bugs/63766 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
