Re: 2 questions...

[Sebastien ESTIENNE <sebest ovibes net>]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
>
>
> > > - when someone logs in the nm-applet managed by gdm goes away and is
> > > replaced with the nm-applet in the user session (this, similar schemes
> > > for e.g. fast-user-switching).
> >
> > As we've talked about before, something like this would be completely
> > acceptable.
>
>
> I think something like this would work.. But how would one configure the
> "available" or "preferred" networks in the nobody context?  Provided there is
> some way for a user to push this list of networks/keys into the nobody context
> I have no objection to it working this way.  It's effectively what I wanted,
> although I was thinking it would be done by NM itself.
>
> My personal preference is still to have NM store the data in a root-only context
> and NM-applet can pass the preferred list to NM.. That way NM can still make
> decisions based on preferred networks without the applet.  Perhaps user can
> choose whether to tell NM to save the info in the global context or save it in
> the user context?
>
> Honestly...  Am I really the only person here that considers laptops effectively
> single-user?  It really sounds like you're architecting for a multi-user laptop
> and leaving the single-user laptops in a lurch, having to jump through a bunch
> of hoops..  Isn't the network generally a system resource, not a user
> resource?
I agree with you with the single-user nature of laptops. And also the 
fact that it should connect to known networks without login in.

I also need it for other reasons than kerberos:
- i can't acces my samba shares until i log in, using my laptops as 
mobile file server, sometimes i expect to just power it on and be able 
to acces my files.
- the same for apache (holding my wiki) and hula holding my 
contacts/planning

Making gdm starting the network would a fairly good solution as Davis Z 
proposed.

--
Sebest
> > Dan
>
>
> -derek