Re: 2 questions...

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:

> All the wireless keys, preferred network, and which networks you're
> actually allowed to connect to are stored per-user, as designed, and
> also as designed, NetworkManager won't attempt to connect to a wireless
> network without that data since it couldn't possibly know which one to
> connect to.

no offense intended, but I still disagree with that design choice.  It means you
cannot use NM in a situation where you have wireless network and network-based
login (e.g. Kerberos/Hesiod, NIS, etc).  In the current design you have to
already be logged in in order to start the wireless network, which means you
have to have a local account.

IMNSHO it would be much better to store this information globally so that NM can
choose from pre-defined networks before the user is logged in.  This certainly
works fine for WEP or unprotected networks, and even for shared-key WPA
networks.  It might not work as well for interactive 802.1x authentication...

Even Windows will setup the network before the login process, assuming the
wireless network was configured a priori!  How could Windows get something
right and Linux not?

> Dan

-derek

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