Re: Retrieving 'secret' setting

[Colin Helliwell <colin helliwell ln-systems com>]

> On 06 September 2017 at 11:14 Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 10:20 +0100, colin helliwell ln-systems com
> wrote:
>
> > I'm python-scripting to get a connection's gsm properties, and want
> > to get
> > the password - which "c.for_each_setting_value(print_values, None)"
> > seems to
> > not report (just "None").
> > What would be the technique to get it?
> > Thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> on D-Bus, secrets are exposed separately from regular properties of the
> connection.
>
> GetSettings() vs GetSecrets() in
> https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/stable/gdbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings.Connection.html
>
> Anyway, from libnm (and python gi) you would call
>
> secrets = remote_connection.get_secrets('ethernet')

Great, got that. Now, don't suppose you could help me get to grips with parsing the Glib.Variant....? ;)