Re: PPTP VPN plugin resurrected from the dead

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 08:42 +0200, Bjorge Solli wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 16:46 +0200, Bjorge Solli wrote:
> >> Dan Williams wrote:
> >>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=60842
> <...>
> > That means there's an applet process already running.  If it's not shown
> > in the panel, is NM itself still running?
> 
> You are correct. The NM itself was not running and the applet thus hid
> itself. I can confirm that the daemon works on our university vpn. Great
> work!
> 
> 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.

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.

Note that this won't copy secrets, but that's usually fine because
secrets are different for different users.

Dan

[1] gconftool-2 --dump /system/networking/connections/3 > vpn.xml

[2] gconftool-2 --load dump.xml /system/networking/connections/999