Re: PPTP VPN plugin resurrected from the dead

[Bjorge Solli <bjorge solli it uib no>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> 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.

Ah. So I have to import it as the user as well. Ok, I can live with
that. Or is there a way to say all users should have these vpn-settings
available? I can play around tomorrow, now it's dinner time in Norway:-)

Thanks.

Bjørge