Re: PPTP VPN plugin resurrected from the dead

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:03 +0200, Bjorge Solli wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 08:42 +0200, Bjorge Solli wrote:
> >> Next Q: Can I find the settings files somewhere and copy it to another
> >> user, preferrably also scripting a username change?
> > 
> > The username that gets sent (unless overridden) is the current user's
> > name.  So you can either leave it blank, or override the default.
> 
> If I try to remove the username NM-applet doesn't save the change and
> leaves the field as before. A bug?
> 
> > The connection can be dumped out of GConf using [1] once you know the
> > connection's path, which you could find with gconf-editor, then you can
> > import [2] that connection on the other person's machine.  Make sure you
> > use a unique gconf path when importing though so you don't arbitrarily
> > overwrite what's on the new person's machine.
> <...>
> > [1] gconftool-2 --dump /system/networking/connections/3 > vpn.xml
> > 
> > [2] gconftool-2 --load dump.xml /system/networking/connections/999
> 
> This would be perfect! But are you sure about that path? I dont't have a
> /system/networking folder at all.

If you've already set up the connection with nm-connection-editor and
hit "Save" then you should have that GConf directory...  If you run
gconf-editor, can you drill down to that path?

Note that this should be done as your _user_, not as root.

Dan