Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 at 09:39:07 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> I took a look at how NetworkManager handles that: it stores configuration using
> gconf, so it's not really comparable

NM can go either way - it'll use the current user's gconf for connections
that are not "shared with other users", which is the default, or flat files
in /etc for connections that are shared.

I seem to remember newer NM versions (in experimental) have changed the
default to be the other way round, on the basis that network connections are
system-wide, so their configuration should be system-wide too.

    S