On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 10:14 -0400, Robert Marcano wrote: > On 8/27/19 10:03 AM, John Harris wrote: > > > Any new Wifi connection could be identified by their SSID, so it > could > still be secure by default and ask for that specific connection to > be > opened because you trust them. As I proposed on another email, bring > back the NetworkManager zones UI to GNOME Settings, simplified with > being an option to confine that connection to the public zone. > Yeah, the WIFI case can be as simple as that: let the use choose the default zone. Public means closed firewall, otherwise the workstation zone can be as it is now. This protects the user from big mistakes as unintended sharing of information over samba, media players et. > The problem of identifying wired connections still remains and needs > more thinking. For this case NetworkManager could verify the gateway address/ MAC to see if this is a known network, and if not offer the user to allocate that connection to a public/private zone? I seem to remember that Windows does something similar (sorry not a big Windows user)... /louis _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
