Re: Pre-populate NM-vpnc profiles?

[Casey Harkins <caseyharkins gmail com>]

Brian Long wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to use gconftool-2 or something to pre-populate various
> system-wide VPN profiles for NetworkManager-vpnc.  Is there any
> documentation on how to do this?  I have various Cisco pcf files from
> which I can extract the Gateway, Group, Group Password, etc.  Is there
> an easy way to add a bunch of NM-vpnc profiles from the command-line?
> This would allow me to wrap it inside an RPM, etc.

Not necessarily any documentation, however you should be able to extract 
the relevant configuration from gconf directly. Configure at least one 
vpn (I believe you can even import the pcf files in the vpn 
configuration dialog), then use gconf-editor or something to find the 
appropriate configuration under /system/networking/connections/.

There are a couple of problems that will have to be overcome. First, all 
NM connections (including wired/wifi/vpn) are enumerated beneath that 
gconf location (at least on 0.7). I'm not sure how NM will react if 
these are out of order or non numeric. Depending on the configuration 
needed, it might be necessary to do this from a login script for the 
user, rather than as system-wide gconf settings (if key 
locations/usernames etc are stored in gconf).

Good luck.

-casey