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[Rahul Sundaram]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> But this was a specific, concrete query.
> Why does NM wait until the user has logged in to start?

That's a wrong assumption. NM doesn't wait until the user has started. 
It is a system service which starts at boot. nm-applet(GNOME) or 
Knetworkmanager (KDE) is just a frontend to the system service called 
NM. It is possible to write a console frontend  to do a similar task for 
the non-desktop case but NM atleast initially was designed to make 
wireless network access easier. It has grown additional functionality 
over time however.

Rahul