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Avoid KDE Plasma etc to ask you to enter password for Wi-Fi

Summary

I added another user and KDE Plasma keeps asking to enter the password every time I log in with the user. Amending.

The amendment

/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy
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(Omitting)
<action id="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan">
<defaults>
  <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>    <==== Change the value to "yes"
(Omitting)
<action id="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control">
(Omitting)
  <defaults>
    <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>    <==== Change the value to "yes"
(Omitting)
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