RE: Adding connections via D-Bus is not (yet) supported

["Jos Collin-ERS,HCLTech" <joscollin hcl com>]

Hello Neil,

In NM 0.8.x, NetworkManagerUserSettings does not export the add/delete functionality due to security reasons, as then any application in the user's session could read/write/delete network settings. But NetworkManagerSystemSettings provides those functionality. So if you are in a user session then adding/deleting a connection using NetworkManagerSystemSettings will ask the root password.

Regards,
Jos Collin
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From: networkmanager-list-bounces gnome org [networkmanager-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Neil Durant [neildurant gmail com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 8:34 PM
To: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Adding connections via D-Bus is not (yet) supported

I'm trying to add a new connection to NetworkManager using d-bus so that my embedded Linux system can connect to a wireless network to which it receives credentials.  I've been trying to use AddConnection on the org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings interface of /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings, on the org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings bus, but I get the following error:

org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.Org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.AddFailed.Code0: add_connection: adding connections via D-Bus is not (yet) supported

I'm using NetworkManager 0.8.4 on Ubuntu 11.04.

Can anyone shed any light on this error?  Does a more recent NetworkManager support this, or am I'm trying to go about this the wrong way?

Neil
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