Re: [PATCH] Allow NetworkManager-SSH plugin

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

> From: "Dan Fruehauf" <malkodan gmail com>
> My findings so far about that matter, regarding VPN plugins for
> NetworkManager and their dbus policies.
> 1. Vanilla /etc/dbus-1/system.d (without the SSH rules)
> 2. Things don't work
> 3. Adding the nm-ssh-service.conf file (to allow SSH access)
> 4. Still things won't work
> 5. pgrep dbus-daemon | xargs kill -HUP
> 6. Things still won't work
> 7. Adding the specific rule in org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf
> 8. pgrep dbus-daemon | xargs kill -HUP
> 9. Things still don't work
> 10. /bin/systemctl reload NetworkManager.service
> 11. We're good to go
>
> Looks like it's nice to add this patch, but altogether a restart for
> NetworkManager will be required if you install a new VPN plugin with
> policies that were not included in org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf
> originally.
>
> Mmmmm. What can we do about it?
>
> Supposedly new plugins can request a restart for NetworkManager (in their
> %post) section, but that's rather ugly. Any other suggestions?

I used to think that dbus was a great tool. Until I started actually using it. Unfortunately my knowledge of 
dbus internals are poor but this looks like a bug or at least a missing feature with dbus. Hope someone 
corrects me and says it's properly fixable in NetworkManager.

Pavel