--share=network permission

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 11:04 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:58 AM Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 10:46 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > There have been some suggestions that this could be done as a
> > portal
> > > that talks to NetworkManager to set up some tunnel. Do you think
> > that
> > > is something we should pursue ? 
> > 
> > What would this stop the applications from doing? I can't really
> > think
> > of a case where we'd want to disable networking from an application
> > that requested it, unless it was for debugging purposes.
> 
> In limited / metered bandwidth situations, you may want to keep an
> app from using network.
> Even if you don't want to disallow network use, you may want to have
> information about the
> bandwidth use of applications.

Being able to disallow or restrict network access for background
applications might also be a use-case.

We usually speak of portals framed as a user interaction, in this case
I would expect network availability to be changed programmatically.
Makes sense.

Cheers