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[Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I'm going to close this bug report as their is nothing else we can do
with this old report in a now unsupported version of Ubuntu.

** Changed in: network-manager
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/480494

Title:
  User-defined connection names don't appear as choices in drop-down
  menu

Status in NetworkManager:
  Invalid
Status in Ubuntu network, Bluetooth, keyboard menus:
  Invalid
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 9.10
  network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3, Ubuntu 12.04 beta

  1. From the network menu, choose "Edit Connections...", then "Wireless".
  2. Select a wi-fi network that was in the menu (for example, the one you are currently connected to) and choose "Edit".
  3. In the "Connection name" field, enter "Fred", and choose Save.
  4. Open the menu.

  What you see: The previous network name.
  What you should see: "Fred".

  In the "Network Connections" dialog it is possible for me to set my
  own custom "Connection Names". One set, networks appear using these
  names in the Network Connections dialog.

  Now, I click on the nm tray applet and it shows me a list of networks,
  but the networks are named based on their SSID's - not based on the
  names that I've supposedly given them!

  This can be very frustrating if you live in a place where everyone's
  network is named "linksys".

  Insofar as this presents the user with potentially confusing or
  ambiguous connection options it allows an attacker to set up their own
  network mirroring the existing network's SSID and thus encourage
  illegitimate connections. Presenting the user's own defined names is
  one way of avoiding this (especially if these were say, italicized, to
  better show that they are trusted networks).

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