Hello everybody, I'm writing this mail to gather comments about a serious bug I received some time ago, for which I haven't yet had time to make a proper fix. The bug is #612918, against wicd, "Uses /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf as state file". My opinion is that wireless networks with some kind of configuration provided (say, a key, or a DNS server, or some static IP, [..]), should be saved there (so the bug really is: «don't uselessly save all the networks you encounter» -- and I already have a fix for that). The reporter's opinion is that no GUI should ever write to /etc/. However, WICD clients are run from privileged users, i.e. those in the `netdev' group, and are added there by root. So I think that's perfectly fine. I took a look at how NetworkManager handles that: it stores configuration using gconf, so it's not really comparable. I'd like to stick with files under /etc/, possibly. What's your opinion on this? I haven't searched thoroughly through the archive, but I guess there are other UIs run by privileged non-root users that write to /etc/? Didier, I hope I correctly summarised the bug you reported. If not, please reply :) Thanks for your suggestions, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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