Re: Get uuid of connection

[Daniel Gnoutcheff <daniel gnoutcheff name>]

On 07/21/2010 11:41 AM, Arlen Nascimento wrote:
> Ok, i could add a connection, but it is a system connection.
> As far as i noted, in order to this connection I created be detected by
> the scripts i'm using, it has to be a user connection.
> How to create a user connection in the command line?

I'm afraid that is much more difficult to do.  The method of adding user
connections is dependent on which NetworkManager client is in use. Each
client choses its own method of storing config data and then exports
that over DBus for the daemon to use.  Most (all?) NM clients don't
support editing user connections over DBus, so you would need to edit
the config files directly.  For example, nm-applet stores its config
data in GConf under /system/networking/connections.  gconftool-2 may be
useful for editing that.


Also, current plans are that the next major version of NetworkManager
will drop support for user connections. (They are to be replaced with
beefed-up security controls for system connections: see
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/RemovingUserSettings for more
details on that.) So if it's at all possible, I'd recommend trying to
get the scripts to work with system connections.

Have a good one,
Daniel

> 
> 
> s_con = { 'id': 'XXX', 'uuid': '5ef2d781-1197-44eb-8744-cd78b9c07315',
> 'type': '802-11-wireless', 'autoconnect': False, 'name': 'connection' }
> 
> s_wifi = { 'ssid': dbus.ByteArray("XXX"), 'mode': 'infrastructure',
> 'security': '802-11-wireless-security', 'name': '802-11-wireless' }
> 
> s_wsec = { 'key-mgmt': 'wpa-psk', 'wpa-key': 'xxx', 'name':
> '802-11-wireless-security' }
> 
> s_ip4 = { 'method': 'auto', 'name': 'ipv4' }
> 
> con = { 'connection': s_con, '802-11-wireless': s_wifi,
> '802-11-wireless-security': s_wsec, 'ipv4': s_ip4 }
> 
> 
> sys_bus = dbus.SystemBus()
> ses_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
> proxy =
> sys_bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings",
> "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings")
> iface = dbus.Interface(proxy, "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings")
> 
> try:
>     iface.AddConnection(con)
> except Exception, e:
>     print e
> 
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Gnoutcheff
> <daniel gnoutcheff name <mailto:daniel gnoutcheff name>> wrote:
> 
>     On 07/19/2010 09:27 AM, Arlen Nascimento wrote:
>     > It is possible to do it by means of dbus commands or something?
>     > examples?
> 
>     Here's one:
>     http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python/add-system-connection.py
> 
>     dbus-send(1) probably could do the job as well, e.g. if you prefer to
>     use shell scripts. These documents may be helpful as well:
>     http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec-08.html
>     http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html
> 
>     And to make the connection "run" without user intervention, you only
>     need to ensure that the "autoconnect" flag is "true". In fact, that flag
>     is "true" by default, so you won't really need to do anything.
> 
>     Note that adding a system connection is a one-shot deal; you only need
>     to do it once. So if you can afford to use a GUI tool just once, you'll
>     probably find that nm-connection-editor is a much easier way to do it.
>     (Just check "Available for all users", and it'll get installed as a
>     system connection.)
> 
>     Have a good one,
>     Daniel
> 
>     > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth gmail com
>     <mailto:daenyth gmail com>
>     > <mailto:daenyth gmail com <mailto:daenyth gmail com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:11, Arlen Nascimento
>     >     <arlen nascimento gmail com
>     <mailto:arlen nascimento gmail com>
>     <mailto:arlen nascimento gmail com
>     <mailto:arlen nascimento gmail com>>> wrote:
>     >     > Ok, but the thing is: i need to setup and "run" a connection
>     >     without the
>     >     > user intervention
>     >     In that case you need to create a new connection with the options
>     >     you want.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Arlen Nascimento
>