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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="problem"
      id="net-othersedit">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="net-problem"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="user-admin-explain"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.7.1" version="0.2" date="2012-11-16" status="outdated"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-10-31" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Phil Bull</name>
      <email its:translate="no">philbull@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email its:translate="no">mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>You need to uncheck the <gui>Available to all users</gui> option in the network connection settings.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Other users can't edit the network connections</title>

  <comment>
    <cite date="2012-02-19">shaunm</cite>
    <p>I know there were polkit policy changes. Not sure if this is 100% on the
    money for 3.2. Double-check when possible</p>
  </comment>

  <p>If you can edit a network connection but other users on your computer
  can't, you may have set the connection to be <em>available to all users</em>.
  This makes it so that everyone on the computer can <em>connect</em> using
  that connection<!--, but only users
  <link xref="user-admin-explain">with administrative rights</link> are allowed
  to change its settings-->.</p>

  <comment>
    <cite date="2013-10-31">Kat</cite>
    <p>Anyone can edit the connection in 3.10.</p>
  </comment>

<!--
  <p>The reason for this is that, since everyone is affected if the settings
  are changed, only highly-trusted (administrator) users should be allowed to
  modify the connection.</p>

  <p>If other users really need to be able to change the connection themselves,
  make it so the connection is <em>not</em> set to be available to everyone on
  the computer. This way, everyone will be able to manage their own connection
  settings rather than relying on one set of shared, system-wide settings for
  the connection.</p>
-->

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Open the <gui xref="shell-terminology">Activities</gui> overview and
      start typing <gui>Network</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click on <gui>Network</gui> to open the panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select <gui>Wi-Fi</gui> from the list on the left.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Open the connection details by pressing on the
      <gui style="button"><media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/emblem-system-symbolic.svg" width="16" height="16"><span its:translate="yes">details</span></media></gui>
      button to see the <gui>Details</gui> for wireless network.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select <gui>Identity</gui> from the panel on the left side.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>At the bottom of the <gui>Identity</gui> panel, check the <gui>Make
      available to other users</gui> option to allow other users to use the
      network connection.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Apply</gui> to save the changes.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>