Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88568
USERCTL=yes no longer works with wireless nics
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:56 EDT
Description of problem: My laptop has a wireless NIC, I like to use USERCTL=yes to control the interface a non-root user. Recently, because of the KEY and ESSID lines being visible to all users, the permissions changed to 600. Now USERTCTL=yes no longer works.
*** Bug 89034 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 88875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug *still* appears to be present in the Harald Hoyer's updates latest updates at: ftp://people.redhat.com/harald/redhat-config-network/1.2.15-RH9, despite the fact that it's been around since April and there have been about 9-10 updates of that package since then. Is there a fundamental problem with fixing this bug? I understand the possible security issues, but it looks like James Clark already provided a possible solution in #88875 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88875) From a user point of view, especially when it's a Linux newbie, it's pretty annoying. These days setting up a wireless interface is about the first kind of network device somebody will want to configure on a laptop and to have it disappear from the Network Device Control dialog straight away is disconcerting to say the least. I'm really suprised that this hasn't made it into an official erratta months ago, it really makes Red Hat look a little unprofessional. Just my $0.02.
will be fixed in the next product release... in rawhide there is already a version which will work together with an initscripts update..