Re: Where does NM store its VPN configurations?

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

> On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 12:51 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> On Wed, August 10, 2011 12:33 pm, Bin Li wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord mit edu> wrote:
>> >> Hey all,
>> >>
>> >> I just migrated from one laptop to another (both running Fedora 15).  I
>> >> completely copied my homedir over and all my wireless configuration
>> >> remained but for some reason I don't see any of my previous VPN
>> >> configurations on the new system.  Where does NM store it, and how do I
>> >> copy it over?
>> > Maybe you could check /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
>> 
>> Aha, perfect.  Thank you!
>> 
>> Going from F12 -> F15 it moved with my homedir, but in F15 it somehow got
>> moved from my homedir -> system-connections.  I've noted this for the
>> future.
>
> ifcfg files have no provision for VPN stuff, so yeah, we have to stuff
> them into system-connections/.

Sure, but previously it was stored in my personal gconf settings.  Which
made sense -- VPN configs were tied to me, not to the system.  All my
wireless configs are stored in gconf, so why move VPN configs but not
wireless configs?

> Dan

-derek

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