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gnome-control-center package

the proxy authentication option is not easy to use

Bug #838820 reported by dc
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This bug affects 14 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Network Manager Applet
Confirmed
Medium
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

There is no proxy authentication option under System Settings -> Network -> Network Proxy. Looks like a Gnome3 upstream bug.

Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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dc (darkcharl) wrote :

There seems to be an upstream bug already opened for it: #646354 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646354).

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
summary: - proxy authentication option missing in 11.10 / gnome3
+ the proxy authentication option is easy to use
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
summary: - the proxy authentication option is easy to use
+ the proxy authentication option is not easy to use
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Janne Snabb (snabb) wrote :

See attached patch.

Description:

Move the gnome-pty-helper into the -common package and install
only a single copy of this set-gid binary in /usr/lib/libvte.

The downside of this approach is that the -common package becomes
architecture specific.

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Janne Snabb (snabb) wrote :

Oops, wrong bug. Sorry about that.

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Yuriy Voziy (yuretsz) wrote :

As a workaround you can you use dconf-editor to set proxy settings.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/54493/gnome-3-proxy-settings/66064#66064

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Tonton Manu (dubreucq)
tags: added: 12.04
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Tonton Manu (dubreucq) wrote :

This bug also affects 12.04 (x86 + x64) version of Ubuntu. I can't find the authentication option as I did in Ubuntu 11.04, for example.
The dconf-editor workaround may work (modifying env var as well), but it's not satisfying as everybody can read the password.

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bash321 (bash321) wrote :

this bug also effects 13.04.
I wish there was an easier option... and secure option!
as a lot of business and educational institutions use proxies.
Please fix this.

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bash321 (bash321) wrote :

what would be really good is also a location feature of when and where to use proxy servers on the system and when not to. it was implemented in the older versions of ubuntu.

affects: gnome-control-center → network-manager-applet
bash321 (bash321)
tags: added: security
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