Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[maya%netbsd.org@localhost]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 01:08:27AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 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

This does give the ability to configure wifi with a GUI w/o root or
something akin to polkit, via some pkgsrc packages (There's wpa_gui, for
example, it's a QT5 thing. I imagine writing other things is not much
harder)

I just figured this change might be controversial so we need to be
honest about it happening.