[HELP] Don't save user name for 802.1x connection

[Matthias Ellmer <ellmer tugraz at>]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to deploy linux to a classroom with 15 laptops that have to 
connect to 802.1x wireless. The students use their university accounts 
as logins. Is it possible to create a connection profile where the 
username is not remembered, similarly to how you can set the 
password-flag to "not-saved"?

This would be very useful because there can't be any expactation of 
persistence between sessions. There is only one guest user account that 
students use, the $HOME of which will be wiped at shutdown, so per-user 
settings won't be an option either. Modifying the config every time 
seems way to cumbersome of an approach.

Ideally I'd imagine something along the lines of:

[802.1x]
eap=ttls;
phase2-auth=mschapv2
password-flags=2 # Don't remember
identity-flags=2     # Don't remember


Laptop boots up, sees system-connection, tries to connect and prompts 
for both username and password. Is this scenario currently possible? If 
not, is this something that can be implemented?


Thanks,

Matthias