Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:42:54AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
 > it would be OK if this was _read-only_ access to network
 > configuration, but one should never be allowed to change the
 > it unless root.

In the long run, it's quite helpful for laptops to be able to adjust
the network configuration from a GUI on the console without having to
run GUI bits as root. We aren't in a position to do this correctly
(nor does importing the likes of polkit as a hack to allow reasoning
about being "on the console" constitute correctly) but let's not lose
track of it as a goal.

Is there a way we could, for example, leverage the current hacks for
chowning console devices to grant access to wpa_supplicant?

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost