Re: controlling wireless connections

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 10:11 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> I recently moved into a new development and pretty much each and every 
> home in this development has a WIFI network.  While most of these 
> network are secure a few of them are not but require some kind of 
> handshake to establish "guest" access.  These "guest access" WIFI 
> networks are a pain because my Fedora 18 client systems (running Network 
> Manager) will sometimes attempt to use one of these network rather then 
> my secure WIFI network.
>
> Is there some way to "blacklist" WIFI network not to be used?  Or, to 
> reverse that question, is there some way of specifying that only 
> networks with a specific SSID should be used?

NM will only autoconnect to networks that it has been told to connect to
before, based on SSID and security settings.  So, if you run
'nm-connection-editor', do you see configurations for those bad SSIDs?
If they exist, something (either a UI applet or you) told NM to connect
to them, but they can easily be deleted from there.

(Or from the command line too with 'nmcli con', then find the ID or UUID
and "nmcli con delete id <id>" or "nmcli con delete uuid <uuid>")

Dan

> If this capability does not currently exist, should it be implemented?
>
> Gene
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