Re: Retrieving 'secret' setting

[Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com>]

On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 12:51 +0100, Colin Helliwell wrote:
> > 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.freedes
> > ktop.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....? ;)

Hi,

No, I never did that with python+gi.

I would read through /usr/share/gir-1.0/GLib-2.0.gir to see how the API
looks like. But that might not be the best approach.


Thomas

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