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  firmware-iwlwifi disable network-manager's root password requirement  for every user "cacquarante@gmail.com" <cacquarante@gmail.com> - 2019-03-12 15:40 +0100
    Re: firmware-iwlwifi disable network-manager's root password  requirement for every user Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-03-12 22:00 +0100

#63565 — firmware-iwlwifi disable network-manager's root password requirement for every user

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    Dear maintainers,

        this concerns :

            network-manager version 1.6.2-3+deb9u2
            network-manager-gnome version 1.4.4-1+deb9u1
            firmware-iwlwifi version 20161130-4
            gnome version 3.22.2
            Debian GNU/Linux version 9 (stretch) 64 bits

        ➤ I am writing to report this unsolicited behaviour:

        Steps:

            1 - Fresh Debian with wired internet access
            2 - access to network settings require root password (this
            is ok)
            3 - install firmware-iwlwifi
            4 - access to network settings (LAN and Wi-Fi) do not
            require password anymore, whatever user is logged in, even
            after reboot.
            5 - uninstall firmware-iwlwifi restore root password
            requirement.

        I've found no info about this behaviour in the documentation,
        nor how to prevent this to happen without consent.

        ➤ I would like to know how to preserve or restore the primary
        network-manager secure behaviour while having Wi-Fi functional.




    Yours faithfully

    Cacquarante

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#63570 — Re: firmware-iwlwifi disable network-manager's root password requirement for every user

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On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 15:13 +0100, cacquarante@gmail.com wrote:
>     Dear maintainers,
> 
>         this concerns :
> 
>             network-manager version 1.6.2-3+deb9u2
>             network-manager-gnome version 1.4.4-1+deb9u1
>             firmware-iwlwifi version 20161130-4
>             gnome version 3.22.2
>             Debian GNU/Linux version 9 (stretch) 64 bits
> 
>         ➤ I am writing to report this unsolicited behaviour:
> 
>         Steps:
> 
>             1 - Fresh Debian with wired internet access
>             2 - access to network settings require root password (this
>             is ok)

That actually sounds like a bug.

>             3 - install firmware-iwlwifi
>             4 - access to network settings (LAN and Wi-Fi) do not
>             require password anymore, whatever user is logged in, even
>             after reboot.

This is the behaviour I expect in GNOME.  You would need to
specifically configure it to prevent this.

>             5 - uninstall firmware-iwlwifi restore root password
>             requirement.
> 
>         I've found no info about this behaviour in the documentation,
>         nor how to prevent this to happen without consent.
> 
>         ➤ I would like to know how to preserve or restore the primary
>         network-manager secure behaviour while having Wi-Fi functional.

firmware-iwlwifi doesn't contain any code that would change the
authentication configuration.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false.

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