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Bug 725919 - About adding proxy authentication field in nm
About adding proxy authentication field in nm
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 646354
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Network
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-03-07 21:24 UTC by prasad mhatre
Modified: 2014-10-13 14:30 UTC
See Also:
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general idea (1.02 MB, image/png)
2014-03-07 21:24 UTC, prasad mhatre 		Details

Description prasad mhatre 2014-03-07 21:24:19 UTC 
Created attachment 271271 [details]
general idea 

hello,Our college internet is under the proxy server i.e. connection is done through proxy server,So we have use our college id and password for accessing the internet service.
But I think there should be option in network manager of authentication field also ,alongside proxy address and port no.
i.e there should an check box to enable/disable the authentication field.
and below that checkbox-->there should be two text field (User Id: and Password:)
and Button for applying it throughout the system.

Advantages:
#for new user, it will be very convenient way to use the connection system wide.
 instead of editing /etc/environment file and adding the proxy setting.
#system wide proxy setting enables the user to use all the application without configuring it separately.(eg.synaptic manager,irc client,mail client,browser,etc)

I think this feature can really helpful for the users.

please review on this.

regards,
prasad mhatre.
Comment 1 David Twersky 2014-05-07 16:07:06 UTC 
That would be a great improvement, not having the ability to add credentials to the proxy settings causes any application that does not ask for credentials like gnome extensions, not to work. Changing /etc/environment does not always work in my experience, sometimes it gets overwritten by gnome nm settings.

Also, how did you get the ignore hosts box in the settings?

Thanks,
David Twersky
Comment 2 prasad mhatre 2014-05-07 18:49:40 UTC 
i am using debian testing (jessi).and it is having that option by default.
can anyone call up the developer and ask how can this be done.
and yes, i too have the same problem with gnome-extensions , but that doesn't concerned much for me.
Comment 3 Thomas Haller 2014-05-13 14:36:59 UTC 
This UI field from the screenshot is not related to NetworkManager. NM doesn't manage proxies.

Reassigning to gnome-control-center
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2014-10-13 14:30:13 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 646354 ***