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This would be handy, especially when companies develop a VPN
solution, and want to distribute client VPN profiles, like
openvpn. the user receives a bundle via USB in the security office
containing that user's
cert/key.
If one could develop the working profile, export in some editable
format, batch edit - could be really
efficient.
On 31.05.2017 16:25, Alex Ferm wrote:
It is my experience that the easiest way to "backup" a
connection is just to copy its keyfile. I work exclusively with
system connections, so that may not be as easy with user
connections. It also appears that nmcli has import/export
support for VPN connections. If VPN connections are all you care
about, you could probably get away with a simple bash script
that finds and exports VPN connections and a similar script to
re-import them on the destination host.
On 05/31/2017 07:45 AM, Greg Oliver
wrote:
I have emailed a couple times about backing up
connections since I have close to 100 VPNs I would
like to restore when I upgrade my OS. The
dconf/gconf methods from the past are no longer
valid.
I am willing to put in the work (since it is an
obvious pain to do 2x a year when I upgrade) to write
(I know python, perl and all shells) scripts to
backup/restore connections. I see there are python
bindings, but there are also a lot of unknowns (user
or system connections, etc..).
Is this something that would gain traction, or is it
always going to be a moving target? I assume python
bindings would not change (much like the kernel ABIs),
but I obviously do not know.
In the past I have used dconf, but the connections are no
longer stored there, so you see my dilemma.
If this sounds like something the network manager devs are
interested in, let me know - otherwise I will figure out how
to roll my own. It is an unusual use case I know, but I
work with our clients through VPN connections all day every
day, so it would save me quite a bit of time to be able to
carry them over from upgrade to upgrade, etc..
If this does not seem like something important, I will just do
something local. TIA!
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