Re: Pre-populate NM-vpnc profiles?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 09:11 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> > (I'm talking about 0.7 here)
> >
> > It shouldn't matter what the path is in GConf.  Numerics got picked as
> > the default paths just because they're pretty easy to handle.  If you
> > wanted to use a string that should work too (in fact, give it a shot and
> > let me know if the connection doesn't get found and I'll look into it).
> >
> > So if you really want a stable connection, export the connection details
> > with:
> >
> > gconftool-2 --dump /system/networking/connections/6 > my-connection.xml
> >
> > Edit the resulting xml to change base directory to, say, "CompanyNet":
> >
> >   <entrylist base="/system/networking/connections/CompanyNet">
> >
> > then, roll that .xml file into an RPM and in the %install section do
> > something like:
> >
> > gconftool-2 --load %{SOURCE0}
> >
> > Not sure if you need to give a directory to load stuff into with --load,
> > you might.
> 
> Dan & Casey,
> Thanks for the ideas.  I am hoping to write something that will work
> with NM < 0.7 and also for 0.7.  0.7 is currently unstable on Fedora 8
> with VPN dialogs crashing, etc.  I'll probably play with Fedora 7 / NM
> < 0.7 first to see if I can automate this and I'll wait for some
> NM-vpnc fixed RPMs to try and adapt it on Fedora 8.

That should get fixed today; this was originally caused because the NM
3109 update was autopushed but the corresponding vpnc plugin was not
autopushed.  I and the vpnc maintainer need to be better about pushing
the updates out when they actually require each other.

Dan