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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: ubuntu-indicator-mods
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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

Status in Ubuntu network, Bluetooth, keyboard menus:
  New
Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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).

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Date: Tue Nov 10 22:38:03 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
  IfupdownConfig:
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  IpRoute:
   134.84.223.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 134.84.223.168  metric 2 
   169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  scope link  metric 1000 
   default via 134.84.223.254 dev eth0  proto static
  IwConfig:
   lo        no wireless extensions.
   
   eth0      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:""
             Access Point: Not-Associated
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  RfKill:
   
  SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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