Re: Retrieving 'secret' setting

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

> On 07 September 2017 at 16:37 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 09:31 +0100, Colin Helliwell wrote:
..
> > Thanks Dan, that gets it.
> > Now I'm struggling to *modify* the password.... :S I see that I can
> > do a
> >  settings.set_property(NM.SETTING_GSM_PASSWORD, "NewPw")
> > but unsure how to complete the updating. I found
> > NM.Connection.replace_settings(), and update_secrets(), but both of
> > those put me back into GVariant territory.
> > What would be the route to get the new password fed back through
> > (presumably prior to finishing with a
> > NM.RemoteConnection.save()/commit()?)
>
> You're correct. Here's what I'd do:
>
> client = NM.Client.new(None)
> c =
> client.get_connection_by_uuid(sys.argv[1])
> secrets =
> c.get_secrets(NM.SETTING_WIRELESS_SECURITY_SETTING_NAME)
>
> # this merges
> the secrets into the existing connection
> c.update_secrets(NM.SETTING_WIR
> ELESS_SECURITY_SETTING_NAME, secrets)
>
>
>
> # write the full connection back to NM
> c.save()

Yep, that's working (subject to save vs. commit_changes)  - many thanks for the guidance.

Btw, it seems the password can be extracted simply by: 
   password = secrets['gsm']['password']