Re: Keeping VPN settings

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:49 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 04:26 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
> > > I always keep my /home directory on a separate partition for upgrade
> > > purposes.  Lately, I have noticed that certain gnome applets, etc are
> > > not available due to old settings under .gconf.
> > > 
> > > The only think I really care abou tare the 100+ vpnc conections I have.
> > > What is the proper way to back them up and restore after I upgrade
> > > gnome?
> > 
> > With 0.6.x, right?
> > 
> > You should be able to do something like:
> > 
> > gconftool-2 --dump /system/networking/vpn_connections > vpn-connection-backup.xml
> > 
> > then to restore after upgrade/clean-install, do:
> > 
> > gconftool-2 --load vpn-connection-backup.xml
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
> Well, I spoke too soon - the export and import both looked ok, and it
> re-populated the ~/.gconf/system/networking/vpn_connections subdir, but
> they are not showing up in the nm-applet.  File permissions are all
> correct, etc.. 
> 
> Only thing I did was upgrade from 0.6.5 to 0.7 (Ubuntu to Fedora8) due
> to wanting to try the new features in 0.7..  
> 
> Would that cause any issues?

Yes, the VPN settings are now stored in the same format now as all other
connections with NM, which are under /system/networking/connections.
The NM code will convert the wireless connections, but not the VPN
connections.

Dan