Re: Disable autoconnect for new wifi connections by default

[dennis knorr <dennis knorr gmx net>]

Hi,

On 31.01.2017 20:07, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 17:29 +0100, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to disable autoconnect for new wifi connections by
> > default.
> > I prefer to control when my device is connected to public/shared wifi
> > which identity cannot be determined ultimately (aka fake networks
> > with
> > well known ssid).
>
> NM will never connect to a network that you have not at least once
> connected to.  So if you never pick the network from the menu, NM will
> never automatically connect to it.

But this would be a good thing, if the administrator could deploy
network-configurations and say: "autoconnect to these networks, if
available".

We deploy several networks preconfigured and that would be very useful.
Is there a deeper design-decision behind not doing it?

It is not used as an safety-mechanism, but as an convenience mechanism,
that the user does not has to decide or manually interact with the
network configuration.

Dennis